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Optimising estimates of mesospheric neutral wind using the TIGER SuperDARN radar Advances in Space Research, 2006 (Ref: 12949)
Authors:
Matthews D.M.Parkinson M.L.Dyson P.L.Devlin J.C.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) HF backscatter radaras scan 16 beam directions over a field of view of ~52°. In the common mode of operation, data is collected using 45-km range gates and 7-s integrations on each beam.

The Antarctic Committee for Environmental Protection: past, present, and future Polar Record, 2007 (Ref: 13002)
Authors:
Sanchez R.A.McIvor E.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

ABSTRACT. The Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP) was established under the Protocol on … Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty to advise the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) on … matters relating to protection of the Antarctic environment.

Australia has more than enough solar UV radiation Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 2003 (Ref: 12991)
Authors:
Gies P.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Global Solar UV Index: Australian Measurements, Forecasts and Comparison with the UK Photochemistry and Photobiology, 2004 (Ref: 12990)
Authors:
Gies P.Roy C.Javorniczky J.Henderson S.Lemus-Deschamps L.Driscoll C.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The 2002 revision of the UV index (UVI) issued by the World … Health Organisation (WHO), the World Meteorological Office … (WMO), the United Nations Environment Programme … (UNEP) and the International Commission on Non-Ionizing … Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) (World Health Organization … [2002]…

Using broadband erythemal UV instruments to measure relative irradiance Journal of Geophysical Research, 2002 (Ref: 12989)
Authors:
Nunez M.Kuchinke C.Gies P.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

1] This study examines the accuracy of the model 501A UV biometer in taking … measurements relative to a predetermined background condition. The UVSPEC model … with the discrete ordinates radiative transfer (DISORT)…

Facing the furious fifties: the contractile stem of the subantarctic megaherb Pleurophyllum hookeri. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2006 (Ref: 12642)
Authors:
Briggs C.L.Selkirk P.M.Bergstrom D.M.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

On the cool, moist, extremely windy … subantarctic islands, vegetation is treeless and megaherbs, tussock grasses, and cushion plants are the … dominant plant growth forms. In world terms the … subantarctic environment is an unusual one…

Seasonal occurrence of low frequency whale vocalizations in waters of East Antarctica, February 2005-February 2006. 2006 Meeting of the IWC, 2006 (Ref: 12396)
Authors:
Gedamke J.Gales N.Hildebrand J.Wiggins S.
Category 2: International meeting papers

Acoustic survey of marine mammal distribution and occurrence in the waters of East Antarctica (30-80°E) during the Austral Summer of 2006. 2006 Meeting of the IWC, 2006 (Ref: 12395)
Authors:
Gedamke J.Robinson S.Gales N.
Category 2: International meeting papers

Myxomycetes of subantarctic Macquarie Island Australian Journal of Botany, 2007 (Ref: 12984)
Authors:
Stephenson S.L.Laursen G.A.Seppelt R.D.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Macquarie Island is an oceanic island located 1000k m south-east of Tasmania.The island, which lies close … to but north of the Antarctic Convergence is the southern most island in the world with a fairly complete cover of … vegetation. However…

A novel QuikSCAT dual polarization based algorithm for delineation of sea ice and sea ice edge over the southern polar ocean International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness. Program and Abstracts. Hobart, Australia 5-7 July, 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12982)
Authors:
Bhandari S.M.Dash M.K.Khare N.Vyas N.K.
Category 3: Abstract

Fan-Beam and Pencil-Beam Radar Scaterrometers on many satellites in polar orbits, e.g. ERS-1/2, ADEOS-1/2 and QuikSCAT, have been designed primarily for estimation of vector winds over the … global oceans. However, these scatterometers…

Estimation of thin ice thickness and detection of fast ice from SSM/I data in the Antarctic Ocean International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness. Program and Abstracts. Hobart, Australia 5-7 July, 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12981)
Authors:
Tamura T.Ohshima K.I.Markus T.Cavalieri D.J.Nihashi S.Hirasawa N.
Category 3: Abstract

Antarctic coastal polynyas are important areas of high sea ice production and dense water … formation, and thus their detection including an estimate of thin ice thickness is essential.

An evaluation of sea ice thickness as estimated from ice charts for the Southern Ocean International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness. Program and Abstracts. Hobart, Australia 5-7 July, 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12980)
Authors:
DeLiberty T.L.Geiger C.A.Van Woert M.Worby A.Ackley S.
Category 3: Abstract

The weekly National Ice Center (NIC) ice chart dataset is compared with in situ sea-ice … thickness observations from the AsPeCT program during five cruises for 1995 to 2000 … time period in the Ross Sea to discern their quality for use in monitoring sea ice thickness … and mass balance changes.

National Ice Center sea ice charting and ice thickness activities International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness. Program and Abstracts. Hobart, Australia 5-7 July, 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12979)
Authors:
Clemente-Colon P.
Category 3: Abstract

Techniques for sea ice photogrammetry International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness. Program and Abstracts. Hobart, Australia 5-7 July, 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12978)
Authors:
Hughes N.
Category 3: Abstract

The IceCam is an automated sea ice observing and environmental da~ logging system … developedjo intly by the ScottishA ssociationf or Marine Science( SAMS) and the … Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI).

Recent activities of sea ice thickness observations by the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness. Program and Abstracts. Hobart, Australia 5-7 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12977)
Authors:
Uto S.Shimoda H.Ushio S.Nakamura K.
Category 3: Abstract

This paper introduces the recent activities of sea ice thickness observation around Syowa … station (400E), East Antarctica, conducted by the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition … (JARE). Ship-borne video observations were conducted on 12 voyages from December … 1987.

Techniques for analyzing airborne video over Antarctic sea ice International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness. Program and Abstracts. Hobart, Australia 5-7 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12976)
Authors:
Knuth M.A.Ackley S.F.
Category 3: Abstract

Sea ice observations are difficult to obtain in sufficient temporal and spatial resolution. Several observational techniques have been used to build a sea ice record of ice … concentration, ice extent, and ice thickness among other things. Satellite measurements are … varied in their capabilities…

Planned activities on sea ice within the GCOS SST & SI working group International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness. Program and Abstracts. Hobart, Australia 5-7 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12974)
Authors:
Andersen S.
Category 3: Abstract

In autumn 2005, the GCOS Working Group on SST and Sea Ice (GCOS SST&SI WG) was redefined. The working group had been in existence, but inactive, for some 5 years, however it was concluded that there is a need for its activities. In short…

CliC: the crysosphere and climate project International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness. Program and Abstracts. Hobart, Australia 5-7 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12973)
Authors:
Lytle V.
Category 3: Abstract

The Cryosphere and Climate Project (CliC) c~-ordinates climate activities related to all … parts of the earth's cryosphere. This includes sea ice, snow, ice shelves, ice bergs, lake ice, and permafrost. This talk will give a brief overview of the CliC project…

Analysis of snow depth and coverage on sea ice in Antarctica using AMSR-E data products International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness. Program and Abstracts. Hobart, Australia 5-7 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12972)
Authors:
Lewis M.J.Xie H.
Category 3: Abstract

A study of the variation in snow cover and depth over the Antarctic sea ice zone was … performed using AMSR-E/Aqua snow depth and sea ice temperature products of … approximate 5-day intervals from June 2002 through December 2005. Time series statistic … analyses of mean and maximum snow depth…

Southern Ocean precipitation, snow depth, and snow to sea ice conversion: spatial and temporal variability International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness. Program and Abstracts. Hobart, Australia 5-7 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12971)
Authors:
Markus T.
Category 3: Abstract

Snow depth on sea ice plays a critical role in the heat exchange between ocean and … atmosphere because of its thermal insulation, which is almost an order of magnitude … greater than the thermal insulation of sea ice. Furthermore…

Simulation of the Ku-Band radar altimeter sea ice effective scattering surface International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness. Program and Abstracts. Hobart, Australia 5-7 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12970)
Authors:
Tonboe R.Andersen S.Haas C.
Category 3: Abstract

Seasonal forecasting of Antarctic sea ice International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness. Program and Abstracts. Hobart, Australia 5-7 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12969)
Authors:
Yuan X.Chen D.
Category 3: Abstract

Long-range forecasts of Antarctic sea ice are tery much in demand, not only because of … the potential importance of sea ice in global climate, but also for the practical purpose of … exploring the Antarctic continent. Unfortunately…

Modelling Antarctic sea ice thickness International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness. Program and Abstracts. Hobart, Australia 5-7 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12968)
Authors:
Lipscomb W.H.
Category 3: Abstract

I will review current efforts to model the Antarctic ice pack. Sea ice models in GCMs have … become more sophisticated in recent years; state-of-the-art models now include viscousplastic … dynamics, second-order-accurate advection, multilayer thermodynamics…

Theoretical modelling of sea ice as an electrically dense medium for active microwave remote sensing International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness. Program and Abstracts. Hobart, Australia 5-7 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12967)
Authors:
Albert M.Ewe H.T.Chuah H.T.
Category 3: Abstract

Microwave remote sensing has been a useful tool to monitor the conditions of sea ice and … ice extent in the polar regions.

GPR profiles of sea ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness, Program and Abstracts, Hobart, Australia 5-7 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12966)
Authors:
Arcone S.A.
Category 3: Abstract

I discuss 300-400 MHz ground-penetrating radar (GPR) profiles of sea ice in McMurdo … Sound, Antarctica. I recorded them in mid October, 2005 when ice temperature could have … eliminated most brine in the ice and allowed the bottom to be profiled.

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