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The Ozone Hole variability preconditions related to the Antarctic stratosphere temperature distribution 36th Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods, Kyiv, Ukraine, 17-22 August 2009, 2009 (Ref: 14053)
Category 3: Conference paper

It is known that planetary waves play important role in the polar … stratospheric vortex breakdown and ozone value increasing in late … Antarctic spring. In this work…

Comparison of ground- and space-based measurements of Polar Mesospheric Clouds over Davis, Antarctica 36th Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods, Kyiv, Ukraine, 17-22 August 2009, 2009 (Ref: 14052)
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Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMC) are a ubiquitous wide-spread optical … phenomena of the polar summer mesopause region, and comprise icy … aerosols that form under the influence of large-scale atmospheric ascent … and adiabatic cooling. PMC aerosols are controlled by the thermal…

Transport and evolution of smoke from the 2009 Australian bushfires at extratropical southern latitudes: analysis using the 'match' approach 36th Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods, Kyiv, Ukraine, 17-22 August 2009, 2009 (Ref: 14051)
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As revealed by the CALIPSO orbiting lidar, the intense firestorms that occurred … in southern Australia during February 2009 injected a significant plume of … smoke particles into the lower stratosphere. Over the following weeks…

Troposphere and stratosphere influences on the tropopause in the polar regions 36th Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods, Kyiv, Ukraine, 17-22 August 2009, 2009 (Ref: 14050)
Category 3: Conference paper

Arctic and Antarctic tropopause is formed under extreme climate … conditions, both in troposphere and stratosphere. In the troposphere, distribution of orography, ice sheet and stationary atmospheric centres of … action is distinct.

Comparison of the total ozone zonal distribution at the 60°S and 60°N latitudes 36th Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods, Kyiv, Ukraine, 17-22 August 2009, 2009 (Ref: 14049)
Category 3: Conference paper

Analysis of the quasi-stationary planetary wave (QSW) influence on total … ozone column (TOC) distribution over 60°N and 60°S latitudes is … presented. TOMS version 8 total ozone data for years 1979-2003 were … used to compare the vortex-edge TOC distribution in both hemispheres.

Investigations of Interhemispheric Mesospheric Coupling 2009 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 14-18 December 2009, 2009 (Ref: 14047)
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The 15-year set of radar observations of Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (MLT) winds obtained from Davis station in Antarctica (69S, 78E) provide an opportunity for studies of interhemispheric coupling. Observations and modelling described by Becker and Fritts [2006]…

Role of off-shelf to on-shelf transitions for East Antarctic sea ice dynamics during spring 2003 Journal of Geophysical Research, 2009 (Ref: 14062)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

During austral spring 2003, mesoscale sea ice drift and deformation off East … Antarctica were investigated using in situ data from a nine-buoy array. Upon deployment, the array comprised an area of about 4000 km2 with a mean ice concentration of 96%.

A method for compositing polar MODIS satellite images to remove cloud cover for landfast sea-ice detection IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2009 (Ref: 14060)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

This paper presents details of techniques for generating … thermal infrared and visible composite images from the … cloud-free portions of temporally closely spaced MODerate resolution … Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) images…

Diurnal Variations of Global Thunderstorms and Electrified Shower Clouds and Their Contribution to the Global Electrical Circuit Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2010 (Ref: 14045)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The long-standing mainstay of support for C. T. R. Wilson’s global circuit hypothesis is the similarity … between the diurnal variation of thunderstorm days in universal time and the Carnegie curve of electrical … potential gradient.

On the connection between the atmospheric electric field measured at the surface and the ionospheric electric field in the Central Antarctica Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 2010 (Ref: 14044)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Regular measurements of the atmospheric electric field made at Vostok Station (φ=78.451S; … ë=106.871E, elevation 3500 m) in Antarctica demonstrate that extremely intense electric fields … (1000–5000 V/m) can be observed during snow storms.

Antarctic climate change and the environment Antarctic Science, 2009 (Ref: 13964)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The Antarctic climate system varies on timescales from orbital, through millennial to sub-annual, and is closely coupled to other parts of the global climate system.

Texture-based classification of sub-Antarctic vegetation communities on Heard Island International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2010 (Ref: 14046)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

This study was the first to use high-resolution IKONOS imagery to classify vegetation communities on … sub-Antarctic Heard Island. We focused on the use of texture measures, in addition to standard … multispectral information, to improve the classification of sub-Antarctic vegetation communities.

Spatial and seasonal distribution of adult Oithona similis in the Southern Ocean: Predictions using boosted regression trees Deep-Sea Research I, 2010 (Ref: 14041)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

We applied a multivariate statistical modelling technique called boosted regression trees to derive relationships between environmental conditions and the distribution of the adult stage of the cyclopoid copepod Oithona similis in the Southern Ocean.

Comparison of OH and O2 rotational temperatures with SABER and SCIAMACHY temperatures in the context of the first NDMC measurement campaign EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 02 – 07 May 2010, 2010 (Ref: 14035)
Category 3: Abstract

The Network for the Detection of Mesopause Change (NDMC) is a global program with the mission to promote international cooperation among research groups investigating the mesopause region (80-100km) with the goal of early identification of changing climate signals. From September 01 to October 31…

Analysis of planetary wave activity in mesopause OH* temperature fluctuations at different measurement stations during the first NDMC Campaign in September/October 2009 EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 02 – 07 May 2010, 2010 (Ref: 14034)
Category 3: Abstract

The Network for the Detection of Mesopause Change (NDMC) is a global program with the mission to promote international cooperation among research groups investigating the mesopause region (80-100 km) with the goal of early identification of changing climate signals.

On the weighting of SABER temperature profiles for comparison with ground based hydroxyl rotational temperatures Geophysical Research Abstracts, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 02 – 07 May 2010, 2010 (Ref: 14033)
Category 3: Abstract

Kinetic temperature profiles are retrieved from limb-emission radiance measurements of CO2 at 15 and 4.3 um … by the SABER (Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry) instrument on the TIMED … (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) satellite.

Solar cycle and linear trend analysis of the 15 year hydroxyl rotational temperature record over Davis station, Antarctica Geophysical Research Abstracts, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 02 – 07 May 2010, 2010 (Ref: 14032)
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Category 3: Abstract

A climatology of hydroxyl (6-2) band temperatures has been derived from 15 consecutive years of scanning … spectrometer measurements at Davis station (68°S, 78°E), Antarctica.

The diverse origins of New Zealand house mice Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2009 (Ref: 13997)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Molecular markers and morphological characters can help infer the colonization history of organisms. A combination of mitochondrial (mt) D-loop DNA sequences, nuclear DNA data, external measurements … and skull characteristics shows that house mice (Mus musculus)…

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