HOBBS— THE FIXED GLACIAL ANTICYCLONE. 39 



somewhat less strongly marked it or t Incest winds. Strongly stated, it appears 

 indeed as if the air was streaming out after the manner of a liquid from the 

 interior down the inclined slopes toward both coasts, but turned 45° to the 

 right through the action of earth rotation. 



Such a determination, even for summer conditions, gives support to the 

 assumption of very marked inland-ice anticyclones in the sense of the inter- 

 esting demonstrations of W. Hobbs (in "The Existing Glaciers"). Our 

 advance results have therefore given added value to these views. 



Barrier-ice is as regards its areas wholly subordinate to inland- 

 ice within the Antarctic, and. so far as is yet known, it is peripheral 

 and contained within enibayments, yet the stations where meteor- 

 ological observations have been continuously made in the Antarctic 

 have generally been located off the inland-ice, upon the barrier, and 

 always within the zone marginal to the glacier where the control 

 of local circulation falls periodically under the domination of the 

 glacial anticyclone as it passes through its strophic changes. This 

 fact was recognized by David for the winter station of the Shackle- 

 ton Expedition. Framheim, where the station of Amundsen was 

 located, is somewhat less under the domination of the anticyclone 

 from the neighboring King Edward Land than are the British sta- 

 tions under that of South Victoria Land, but the evidence of fre- 

 quent control is not lacking. 



Upon the borders of the Greenland ice dome, where quite similar 

 conditions exist, though generally without the presence of barrier- 

 ice, account of the periodical overwhelming of local circulation by 

 the glacial anticyclone has been taken by the meteorologists who 

 have established stations there. Brand and Wegener in Northeast 

 Greenland in positions where topography especially favored such 

 studies, and for the express purpose of evaluating the degree of 

 domination by anticyclonic conditions, established a second station 

 (Pustervig) close to the margin of the inland-ice and some forty 

 miles distant from the main meteorological station at Danmarks- 

 Havn. As a consequence it was learned that " in spite of the short 

 distance of only 60 km. from Danmarks-Havn . . . this influence 

 is verv^ noticeable." ^ L'ntil meteorological stations can be estab- 

 lished upon the inland ice our best knowledge of circulatory condi- 



^ W. Brand and A. Wegener, Meddelelscr 0m Gronland, Vol. 42, 1912, 

 pp. 451-562. 



