The Observatory main purpose is to contribute to the monitoring of global climate change monitoring standard meteorological parameters. The automatic weather station AWS Silvia is located at Cape Phillips (73° 2′ 60″ S - 169° 35′ 60″ E) at 568 m a.s.l., and has been installed on the 21 december 1990. It acquired, every hour, all year round, the meteorological vaiables of wind velocity, wind direction, temperature, pressure and relative humidity.