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'Energy box diagram' investigation of South Atlantic hurricane Catarina Research Activities in Atmospheric and Oceanic Modelling, Report No. 38, WMO/TD-No. ???, 2008 (Ref: 14001)
Authors:
Pezza A.B.Veiga J.A.P.Simmonds I.da Silva Dias P.L.
Category 6: Report

Polar outbreaks over Southern Australia: Synoptic mechanisms and planetary links Honours Thesis, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, 2007 (Ref: 13999)
Authors:
Ashcroft L.
Category 3: Thesis, higher degree

Polar outbreaks in South America: Synoptic climatology of cyclone/anticyclone behavior, extreme cases in high latitudes and frost events over 1888-2005 in São Paulo Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, 24-28 April 2006, 2006 (Ref: 14009)
Authors:
Pezza A.B.Ambrizzi T.Simmonds I.
Category 3: Conference paper

Cyclone transitions and weather extremes XV CBMET Congresso Brazileiro de Meteorologica, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 24-29 August, 2008., 2008 (Ref: 14008)
Authors:
Pezza A.B.Simmonds I.Veiga J.A.P.da Silva Dias P.L.
Category 3: Conference paper

Cold outbreaks in southern Australia: synoptic mechanisms and planetary links Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 February 2009., 2009 (Ref: 14007)
Authors:
Ashcroft L.C.Pezza A.B.Simmonds I.
Category 3: Conference paper

An analysis of the environmental energetics associated with the transition of the first South Atlantic hurricane Geophysical Research Letters, 2008 (Ref: 14006)
Authors:
Veiga J.A.P.Pezza A.B.Simmonds I.Silva Dias P.L.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

This study presents the first analysis of the energetics … associated with a hybrid cyclone’s transition in the Southern … Hemisphere, Hurricane Catarina (March 2004). Catarina has … earned a place in history as the first documented South … Atlantic hurricane…

Large-scale factors in tropical and extratropical cyclone transition and extreme weather events Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2008 (Ref: 14005)
Authors:
Pezza A.B.Simmonds I.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Transition mechanisms characterizing changes fromhurricanes tomidlatitude cyclones … and vice-versa (extratropical and tropical transition) have become a topic of increasing … interest…

Southern Hemisphere synoptic behavior in extreme phases of SAM, ENSO, sea ice extent and southern Australia rainfall Journal of Climate, 2008 (Ref: 14004)
Authors:
Pezza A.B.Durrant T.Simmonds I.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The association between Southern Hemisphere cyclones and anticyclones and the El Niño–Southern … Oscillation (ENSO), southern annular mode (SAM), Antarctic sea ice extent (SIE), and rainfall in Perth … and Melbourne is explored. Those cities are, respectively…

Cold events over southern Australia: Synoptic climatology and hemispheric structure Journal of Climate, 2009 (Ref: 14003)
Authors:
Ashcroft L.C.Pezza A.B.Simmonds I.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Cold events (CEs) are an important feature of southern Australian weather. Unseasonably cold conditions … can have a significant impact on Australia’s agricultural industry and other aspects of society. In this study the … bottom 0.4% of maximum temperatures in Melbourne and Perth from the 1958…

Temporal and spatial metabolic rate variation in an Antarctic springtail Journal of Insect Physiology, 2010 (Ref: 13998)
Authors:
McGaughran A.Convey P.Redding G.P.Stevens M.I.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Spatial and temporal environmental variation in terrestrial Antarctic ecosystems are known to impact … species strongly at a local scale, but the ways in which organisms respond (e.g. physiologically, behaviourally) to such variation are poorly understood. Further…

Comparing plasma and faecal measures of steroid hormones in Adelie penguins Pygoscelis adeliae Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 2010 (Ref: 13996)
Authors:
Ninnes C.E.Waas J.R.Ling N.Nakagawa S.Banks J.C.Bell D.G.Bright A.Carey P.W.Chandler J.Hudson Q.J.Ingram J.R.Lyall K.Morgan D.K.J.Stevens M.I.Wallace J.Möstl E.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Physiological measurements of both stress and … sex hormones are often used to estimate the consequences … of natural or human-induced change in ecological studies of … various animals. DiVerent methods of hormone measurement … exist…

Contrasting phylogeographical patterns for springtails reflect different evolutionary histories between the Antarctic Peninsula and continental Antarctica Journal of Biogeography, 2010 (Ref: 13995)
Authors:
McGaughran A.Torricelli G.Carapelli A.Frati F.Stevens M.I.Convey P.Hogg I.D.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Aim We examined the genetic structure among populations and regions for the … springtails Cryptopygus antarcticus antarcticus and Gomphiocephalus hodgsoni … (Collembola) to identify potential historical refugia and subsequent colonization … routes…

The Latitudinal Gradient Project (LGP) - a first for Antarctic multidisciplinary research Antarctic, 2009 (Ref: 13994)
Authors:
Stevens M.Gordon S.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The Latitudinal Gradient Proiect LGP) is a successful multidisciplinary, international Antarctic … research programme. lts approach focuses on marine, terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems … along the nofth-south latitudinal gradient between nofthern Victoria Land (72 degrees S)…

Exploring biological constraints on the glacial history of Antarctica Quaternary Science Reviews, 2009 (Ref: 13993)
Authors:
Convey P.Stevens M.I.Hodgson D.A.Smellie J.L.Hillenbrand C-D.Barnes D.K.A.Clarke A.Pugh P.J.A.Linse K.Cary S.C.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The evolutionary and biogeographic history of the contemporary Antarctic terrestrial and marine biotas … reveals many components of ancient origin. For large elements of the terrestrial biota, long-term … isolation over timescales from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of years…

Encouraging the international development of Antarctic astronomy Report of the IAU Working Group, Transactions of the IAU, Reports on Astronomy 2006-2009, 2008 (Ref: 14030)
Authors:
Burton M.G.
Category 3: Conference paper

Two major astronomical experiments are underway at the US Amundsen-Scott South … Pole Station. The first is the South Pole Telescope, a 10m sub-millimetre telescope de- … signed to measure primary and secondary anisotropies in the CMBR…

Dome C site testing: implications for science and technology of future telescopes Proceedings of the 3rd ARENA Conference, EAS Publications Series, 2010 (Ref: 14029)
Authors:
Lawrence J.S.Ashley M.C.B.Burton M.G.Gillingham P.G.McGrath A.Haynes R.Saunders W.Storey J.W.V.
Category 3: Conference paper

Site testing data provides an essential part of the justi¯cation … for funding any new astronomical facility by de¯ning the technological … design and determining the telescope performance, thus allowing the … scienti¯c objectives to be prioritised.

Dome A site testing and future plans Proceedings of the 3rd ARENA Conference, EAS Publications Series, 2010 (Ref: 14028)
Authors:
Gong X.Wang L.Cui X.Feng L.Yuan X.Ashley M.C.B.Allen G.Bonner C.S.Bradley S.G.Everett J.R.Hengst S.Hu J.Jiang Z.Kulesa C.A.Lawrence J.S.Li Y.Luong-Van D.M.McCaughrean M.J.Moore A.M.Pennypacker C.Qin W.Riddle R.Shang Z.Storey J.W.V.Sun B.Suntzeff N.Tothill N.F.H.Travouillon T.Walker C.K.Yan J.Yang H.Yang J.York D.G.Zhang X.Zhang Z.Zhou X.Zhu Z.
Category 3: Conference paper

In January 2005, members of a Chinese expedition team … were the first humans to visit Dome A on the Antarctic plateau, a site … predicted to be one of the very best astronomical sites on earth. In 2006, the Chinese Center for Antarctic Astronomy (CCAA)…

PLATO - A robotic observatory for the Antarctic plateau Proceedings of the 3rd ARENA Conference, EAS Publications Series, 2010 (Ref: 14026)
Authors:
Ashley M.C.B.Allen G.Bonner C.S.Bradley S.G.Cui X.Everett J.R.Feng L.Gong X.Hengst S.Hu J.Jiang Z.Kulesa C.A.Lawrence J.S.Li Y.Luong-Van D.M.McCaughrean M.J.Moore A.M.Pennypacker C.Qin W.Riddle R.Shang Z.Storey J.W.V.Sun B.Suntzeff N.Tothill N.F.H.Travouillon T.Walker C.K.Wang L.Yan J.Yang H.Yang J.York D.Yuan X.Zhang X.Zhang Z.Zhou X.Zhu Z.
Category 3: Conference paper

PLATO is a fully-robotic observatory designed for operation … in Antarctica. It generates its own electricity (about 1kW), heat … (sufficient to keep two 10-foot shipping containers comfortably above … 0◦C when the outside temperature is at −70◦C)…

The best site on Earth? Proceedings of the 3rd ARENA Conference, EAS Publications Series, 2010 (Ref: 14025)
Authors:
Saunders W.Lawrence J.S.Storey J.W.V.Ashley M.C.B.Kato S.Minnis P.Winker D.M.Liu G.Kulesa C.
Category 3: Conference paper

We compare the merits of potential observatory sites on the … Antarctic Plateau, in regard to the boundary layer, cloud cover, free … atmosphere seeing, aurorae, airglow, and precipitable water vapour. We find that (a)…

THz astrophysics from Dome A Proceedings of the 3rd ARENA Conference, EAS Publications Series, 2010 (Ref: 14024)
Authors:
Tothill N.F.H.Kulesa C.A.Walker C.K.Yang J.Ashley M.C.B.Lawrence J.S.Luong-Van D.Storey J.W.V.Yang H.Zhou X.Zhu Z.Bardin J.Cui X.Everett J.Feng L.Golish D.Gong X.Hu J.Jacobs K.Jiang Z.Jones G.Li Y.Martin C.L.McCaughrean M.J.Qin W.Schein M.Shang Z.Siegel P.Sun B.Walsh W.Wang L.Weinreb S.Xu Z.Yan J.Yuan X.Zhang X-G.
Category 3: Conference paper

The THz spectral region includes a number of important … transitions which allow us to trace the evolution of the interstellar … medium. Because of the opacity of the atmosphere in this spectral … range, the best sites for ground-based THz observations are on the … Antarctic Plateau; of these sites…

Snodar II: probing the atmospheric boundary layer on the Antarctic plateau Proceedings of the Optical Turbulence Characterization for Astronomical Applications, 2009 (Ref: 14023)
Authors:
Bonner C.S.Ashley M.C.B.Lawrence J.S.Luong-Van D.M.Storey J.W.V.
Category 3: Conference paper

The height of the atmospheric boundary layer on the Antarctic plateau is of particular interest to meteorologists and designers of optical telescopes for Antarctica. “Snodar”…

A wide-field, optical/infrared, 2.5m class telescope for Antarctica Proceedings of the 3rd ARENA Conference, EAS Publications Series, 2010 (Ref: 14022)
Authors:
Burton M.G.Burgarella D.Andersen M.Busso M.Eiroa C.Epchtein N.Maillard J-P.Persi P.
Category 3: Conference paper

This report provides the recommendations of ARENAWork- … ing Group 1 concerning the development of and objectives for a wide- … field, optical / infrared, 2.5m class telescope for Antarctica. It discusses … the key science drivers for such a telescope…

PILOT - where to next from here? Proceedings of the 3rd ARENA Conference, EAS Publications Series, 2010 (Ref: 14021)
Authors:
Storey J.W.V.Saunders W.Lawrence J.S.Gillingham P.R.Haynes R.
Category 3: Conference paper

The Phase A design study of PILOT|the Path nder for an … International Large Optical Telescope|has demonstrated that a wide- … eld 2.5 m optical/IR telescope can be constructed at Concordia for a … reasonable cost. There are no technical \show stoppers"…

Proposal for a Phase B study of PILOT An astronomical observatory at Dome C, Antarctica for the next decade, Proceedings of the 3rd ARENA Conference, EAS Publications Series, 2010 (Ref: 14020)
Authors:
Ansorge W.Storey J.W.V.
Category 3: Conference paper

Construction of PILOT at the existing French/Italian Con- … cordia Station at Dome C in Antarctica would bring about major bene- … ts for the astronomical research activities of the European and interna- … tional astronomical communities. Because of these potential bene ts…

Astronomy and Astrophysics from Antarctica AAPPS Bulletin, 2009 (Ref: 14027)
Authors:
Storey J.W.V.
Category 3: Article

The Antarctic plateau is a new frontier for … astronomy, offering superior observing … conditions to those of any other groundbased … site across most of the electromagnetic … spectrum.

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