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Calcification morphotypes of the coccolithophorid Emiliania huxleyi in the Southern Ocean: changes in 2001 to 2006 compared to historical data Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2007 (Ref: 13123)

Authors:

Cubillos J.C.Wright S.W.Nash G.de Salas M.F.Griffiths B.Tilbrook B.Poisson A.Hallegraeff G.M.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

We conducted a scanning electron microscopic survey of morphological variations in the … calcareous nanoplankton species Emiliania huxleyi in Southern Ocean surface water samples … collected along a transect from 43 to 64° S and 141 to 145° E during November 2001, October to … February 2002/2003…

Recent and future environmental change in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean: their role in our dynamic future 6th Australasian Environmental Law Enforcement and Regulators Conference, 15-17 September, 2009, Wrest Point, Hobart. Plenary Presentation, Conference Handbook, 2009 (Ref: 13914)

Authors:

Allison I.

Category 3: Abstract

Australia and New Zealand have interests in, and some responsibilities for, a vast area of the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic continent to our south. These regions are integral components of the Earth system, directly coupled to the climate system, global sea level, biogeochemical cycles…

Trends, seasonal cycles, and interannual variability in the isotopic composition of nitrous oxide between 1940 and 2005 EOS Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A21A-0125, 2008 (Ref: 13894)

Authors:

Park S.Croteau P.Boering K.A.Etheridge D.Ferretti D.Fraser P.Kim K.Krummel P.Langenfelds R.Trudinger C.van Ommen T.

Category 3: Abstract

We present measurements and analysis of the isotopic composition (ä15Nbulk, ä15Ná, ä15Nâ, and ä18O) of nitrous oxide in 50 samples of tropospheric air collected at Cape Grim, Tasmania between 1978 and 2005 and in 11 samples of firn air from Law Dome, Antarctica…

Thunderstorm-associated responses in the vertical motion of the mid-latitude F-region ionosphere Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 2009 (Ref: 13889)

Authors:

Kumar V.V.Parkinson M.L.Dyson P.L.Burns G.B.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Mid-latitude Digisonde Doppler velocities, auroral electrojet (AE) indices and cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning strokes during August 2003–2004 were used to study the perturbations in the F-region … vertical drift associated with terrestrial thunderstorms. A superposed epoch analysis (SEA)…

ICECAP Season 1: Implications for the oldest ice and future plans IPICS Workshop on Science and Technology for the Next Generation of International Ice Coring, Oregon, USA, 6-7 July 2009, 2009 (Ref: 13884)

Authors:

Young D.A.Wright A.P.Roberts J.L.Blankenship D.D.Siegert M.J.van Ommen T.Holt J.W.Warner R.C.Young N.

Category 3: Verbal presentation

Reconnaissance of the Aurora Subglacial Basin: The IPY Season of the ICECAP Project International Symposium on Glaciology in the International Polar Year, Newcastle, UK, 27-31 July 2009, 2009 (Ref: 13883)

Authors:

Young D.A.Blankenship D.D.Siegert M.J.van Ommen T.Roberts J.L.Holt J.W.Richter T.G.Wright A.P.Warner R.C.Young N.

Category 3: Verbal presentation

Methanesulphonic acid loss during ice-core storage: recommendations based on a new diffusion coefficient Journal of Glaciology, 2009 (Ref: 13885)

Authors:

Roberts J.L.van Ommen T.Curran M.A.J.Vance T.R.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

ABSTRACT. The loss of methanesulphonic acid (MSA) from stored ice cores can be significant over … typical storage times, with diffusion to the ice-core surface controlling the loss.

DMSP in Antarctic Pack and Fast Ice 2002 Western Pacific Geophysics July meeting in Wellington, New Zealand. Session: Ocean Sciences, 2002 (Ref: 10512)

Authors:

Jones G.B.Trevena A.Wright S.

Category 3: Conference paper

In Polar Regions, sea ice has a marked influence on interactions between the coupled ocean-atmosphere system. The contribution of the sea ice zone to the global flux of dimethylsulphide (DMS), a trace sulphur gas implicated in climate change, has been of interest for over a decade.

CRACICE-MERTZ: Insights into the rifting and calving process of an ice tongue J14-Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere Boundary Layers and Interactions; MOCA-09; Montreal, Canada, 19-29 July 2009, 2009 (Ref: 13880)

Authors:

Legrésy B.Lescarmontier L.Coleman R.Young N.W.Tabacco I.E.Testut L.Lacroix P.Rémy F.

Category 3: Abstract

The CRAC-ICE project aims at monitoring the calving of the Mertz Glacier tongue in East … Antarctica, an ice tongue which extends 140km from its grounding line. Legresy et al. (2004)…

The application of lead isotope ratios in the Antarctic macroalga Iridaea cordata as a contaminant monitoring tool Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2009 (Ref: 13879)

Authors:

Runcie J.W.Townsend A.T.Seen A.J.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Lead (Pb) isotope ratios were measured in the marine macroalga Iridaea cordata collected from four locations … in the Windmill Islands, East Antarctica. Based on the masses of thalli collected, samples analysed in … this study were likely to be a mixture of one and two year old thalli.

ICECAP: Long range airborne geophysics over the Wilkes and Aurora subglacial basins SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 8-11 2008. Abstract Volume, 2008 (Ref: 13647)

Authors:

Blankenship D.D.Siegert M.J.van Ommen T.Bamber J.L.Dalziel I.W.D.Dowdeswell J.A.Holt J.W.Lawver L.A.Payne A.J.Roberts J.L.Warner R.W.Young N.W.Young D.A.

Category 3: Abstract

We discuss an upcoming international airborne survey targeting two of the East Antarctica Ice Sheet's (EAIS) enigmatic … subglacial basins. Using a multi-instrumented long range aircraft we will address key issues in the origin and fate of … Earth's largest ice sheet.

ARISE (Antarctic Remote Ice Sensing Experiment) in the East 2003: validation of satellite-derived sea-ice data products Annals of Glaciology, 2006 (Ref: 12845)

Authors:

Massom R.A.Worby A.Lytle V.Markus T.Allison I.Scambos T.Enomoto H.Tateyama K.Haran T.Comiso J.C.Pfaffling A.Tamura T.Muto A.Kanagaratnam P.Giles B.Young N.Hyland G.Key E.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Preliminary results are presented from the first validation of geophysical data products (ice concentration, snow thickness on sea ice (hs) and ice temperature (TI ) from the NASA EOS Aqua AMSRE sensor, in East Antarctica (in September–October 2003).

The AMISOR project: Amery Ice Shelf dynamics and ice-ocean interaction. Abstract Volume, XXIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Sapporo, Japan. July 2003; page B.64. JSM10/7P/B23-007., 2003 (Ref: 11756)

Authors:

Allison I.Fricker H.Craven M.Young N.

Category 3: Abstract

The stimulus of new technologies Australian Antarctic Science The first 50 years of ANARE, 2003 (Ref: 10771)

Authors:

McCracken K.Young N.W.Bird I.G.

Category 3: Article

Microwave backscatter character of Antarctic snow cover observed with NSCAT on ADEOS. Proceedings of IGARSS`98. Seattle, WA, USA, 6-10 July 1998., 1998 (Ref: 9032)

Authors:

Young N.W.Hyland G.

Category 3: Abstract

Measurements of the microwave backscatter coefficient in the ku-band have been obtained over the Antarctic snow cover by the NSCAT wind scatterometer instrument on the ADEOS satellite from August 1996 to June 1997. The instrument has six antennas arranged with two directed forwards…

Directional anisotropy of C- and ku-band microwave backscatter from the East Antarctic snow cover: differences and similarities. Proceedings of workshop on "Emerging scatterometer applications: from research to operations", ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands, 5-7 October 1998., 1998 (Ref: 9031)

Authors:

Young N.W.Hyland G.

Category 3: Abstract

Measurements of the microwave backscatter from the Antarctic ice sheet have been obtained by the single-sided, right-looking, C-band wind scatterometer carried by the ERS-1 and 2 satellites and by the dual-sided, ku-band NSCAT instrument on ADEOS.

A technique for the identification and analysis of icebergs in synthetic aperture radar images of Antarctica. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 1999 (Ref: 9027)

Authors:

Williams R.N.Rees W.G.Young N.W.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

This paper describes an image analysis technique developed to identify icebergs depicted in synthetic aperture radar images of Antarctica, and to determine the outlines of these icebergs. The technique uses a pixel bonding process to delineate the edges of the icebergs.

Interannual variability of Antarctic snow melt events derived from scatterometer data. Proceedings of IGARSS`98, Seattle, WA, USA. 6-10 July 1998, 1998 (Ref: 8555)

Authors:

Young N.W.Hyland G.

Category 3: Conference paper

Microwave backscatter from the Antarctic snow cover depends on the surface roughness, properties and structure within the snow cover, and moisture content. Small increases in moisture content produce a significant reduction in backscatter.

Wind-induced directional anisotropy of microwave backscatter and its impact on imaging of the Antarctic snow cover Proceedings of IGARSS`98, Seattle, WA, USA. 6-10 July 1998, 1998 (Ref: 8554)

Authors:

Hyland G.Young N.W.

Category 3: Conference paper

The 500 km wide swath of the right-looking ERS wind scatterometer and the orbital geometry allows measurement of the microwave backscatter of all the Antarctic region north of latitude 79°S.

Authors:

Kirkwood S.Nilsson H.Morris R.Klekociuk A.Holdsworth D.Karlsson B.

Category 3: Abstract

PMSE observations in both hemispheres 9th International Workshop on Layered Phenomena in the Mesopause Region (LPMR-09), Stockholm, Sweden, July 12-15, 2009, 2009 (Ref: 13859)

Authors:

Morris R.J.

Category 3: Abstract

Multi-year characteristics of polar mesospheric clouds measured by lidar, at Davis, Antarctica 9th International Workshop on Layered Phenomena in the Mesopause Region (LPMR-09), Stockholm, Sweden, July 12-15, 2009, 2009 (Ref: 13861)

Authors:

Klekociuk A.R.Morris R.J.Alexander S.P.

Category 3: Poster

Climate Change and the Antarctic Ecosystem Antarctica: Secrets of the Southern Continent, 2008 (Ref: 13872)