The Observatory main purpose is to contribute to the monitoring of global climate change monitoring standard meteorological parameters. The automatic weather station AWS Paola is located at Talos Dome (72° 49′ 45″ S - 159° 11′ 36″ E) at 2370 m a.s.l., and has been installed on the 26 January 2003. It acquired, every hour, all year round, the meteorological variables of wind velocity, wind direction, temperature, pressure and relative humidity, plus snow height acquired as daily averages.