Publications database

Life beneath the ice: A history of benthic colonisation beneath the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12565)

Authors:

Post A.L.Hemer M.A.Roberts D.O'Brien P.E.Craven M.

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Life beneath the Antarctic ice shelves is surprisingly abundant and diverse. This study … documents the Holocene seabed community beneath the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, based on fossil analysis of a 47 cm long sediment core. The surface samples from this core … reveals a rich modern fauna…

The Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate (ASPeCt) program. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12562)

Authors:

Worby A.P.Geiger C.A.van Woert M.Ackley S.F.De Liberty T.

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The Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate (ASPeCt) is a program of multi-disciplinary … Antarctic sea ice zone research which is co-sponsored by the Scientific Committee on … Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) program.

Sea-ice thickness for the Southern Ocean derived from ice charts. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12561)

Authors:

deLiberty T.Geiger C.A.van Woert M.Worby A.Ackley S.F.

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We evaluated the weekly NIC (National Ice Center) ice chart dataset with in situ sea-ice … thickness observations from the ASPeCt (Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate) program … during the 1995 to 2000 time period. Five ship voyages from May/June 1995, August 1995, May/June 1998…

Changes in floe size distribution in the Weddell Sea during November-December 2004. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12560)

Authors:

Worby A.P.Steer A.Heil P.

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The Ice Station Polarstern (ISPOL) was a drifting ice station experiment in the western … Weddell Sea during November and December 2004.

Sea-ice dynamics in the Weddell Sea during summer 2004. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12559)

Authors:

Heil P.Worby A.P.Johansson M.

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In late 2004 a multi-national, interdisciplinary study coordinated by the Alfred Wegener … Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany, was carried out in the Western Weddell … Sea. A drifting station, Ice Station POLarstern [ISPOL] formed the core component of this … cruise…

A lead (Pb) isotope record of pollution in Antarctica between 1500 AD and 1990 AD. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12558)

Authors:

Vallelonga P.Rosman K.J.R.Burton G.Burn L.Candelone J.-P. Van de Velde K.P.Morgan V.Barbante C.Gaspari V.Cescon P.Planchon F.A.M.Boutron C.F.

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The efforts of Patterson and co-workers (Murozumi et al., 1969) to accurately measure Pb … concentrations in Greenland and Antarctic snow and ice produced the first reliable … determination of Pb pollution of the Earth’s polar ice sheets. Since then…

What do stronium isotopes in Law Dome ice tell us about the transition? Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12557)

Authors:

Burton G.R.Candelone J.-P.Rosman K.J.R.Vallelonga P.T.Morgan V.I.

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In recent times there has been increasing interest in Sr as an isotopic tracer in environmental … studies. There is the potential to characterise dust inputs at a certain site by transport of … material from source areas if the isotopic compositions of the site and source areas are … known.

Lead isotopes in ice cores sense climate change at Vostok and Dome C, Antarctica. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12556)

Authors:

Rosman K.J.R.Vallelonga P.Burn L.Candelone J.-P.Hong S.Barbante C.Gabrielli P.Boutron C.F.Petit J.R.Planchon F.Morgan V.I.Lipenkov V.

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Antarctic ice is an archive of evidence of climatic conditions and natural phenomena in the … Southern Hemisphere that extends approximately one million years into the past. We can … sense changes through the concentration of atmospheric gases, stable isotope ratios, terrestrial dust levels…

A conceptual model of the large-scale distribution of sea ice algae off East Antarctica. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12555)

Authors:

Raymond B.Meiners K.Curran M.van Ommen T.

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Introduction: Sea ice provides a habitat for algal communities which contribute significantly to … overall primary production of the ice-covered Southern Ocean and may serve as an important … food resource for pelagic herbivores like Antarctic krill…

Sea salt in Antarctica: A proxy for ccean storms or sea ice production? Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12554)

Authors:

Curran M.van Ommen T.D.Morgan V.Foster A.Long M.

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Conventionally the source of sea salt in the Antarctica was considered to be the ocean … surface. In simple terms, sea salt is ejected into the atmosphere as sea spray droplets, mixed … in the atmosphere, and transported to Antarctica via storm activity. Recently, however…

Ice core chemistry - stable isotope connections. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12552)

Authors:

Schneider D.P.van Ommen T.D.Curran M.A.J.Steig E.

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Stable isotope measurements from ice cores have long been regarded as proxies for local … temperature, and recent work shows that a strong isotope-temperature relationship exists … even on interannual timescales, especially if multiple cores are used and a regional (rather … than local)…

Microparticle distribution in the Dome Summit South Ice Core, East Antarctica Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12550)

Authors:

Smith B.T.van Ommen T.D.Morgan V.I.

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The microparticle record from the Dome Summit South ice core, Law Dome, East Antarctica … is investigated using a Coulter Multisizer to provide concentration and size distribution at … selected depths. This core site has an unusually high accumulation rate (640 kg m2/a) during … the Late Holocene…

Ice-core-based Antarctic temperature reconstruction. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12549)

Authors:

Schneider D.P.Steig E.J.van Ommen T.Bitz C.M.Dixon D.A.Mayewski P.A.Jones J.M.

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Most of what has been said about modern Antarctic climate change is based on studies of … meteorological observations that extend back the 1950s. Most attention to Antarctic ice core … records is focused on the timescale of glacial-interglacial cycles.

Messages from the ice: Antarctic ice core records and the global climate system. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12548)

Authors:

van Ommen T.

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Ice cores provide some of the richest archives of past climate behaviour available to us. The … use of ice core data has become a foundation of climate study, and in Antarctica, with the … sparse, short instrumental record, ice core climate data is of particular importance.

The surface climate of the East Antarctic ice sheet between Dome A and the coast. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12547)

Authors:

Allison I.Cunde X.Lingen B.

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Dome A is the highest point on the surface of the East Antarctic ice sheet and the highest … ice feature in Antarctica. In January 2005 a team from the Chinese National Antarctic … Research Expeditions (CHINARE)…

Chemical and biological properties of marine ice from the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12546)

Authors:

Cai M.-H.Li Y.-S.Allison I.Curran M.A.J.

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Ice shelves play a major role in the discharge of ice from Antarctica both from iceberg calving and basal melt, and processes of ocean-ice interaction beneath the shelf are of increasing scientific interest.

Snow accumulation along the Chinese ITASE traverse line from Antarctic coast to Dome A: Measurements from stakes and automatic weather stations. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12545)

Authors:

Xiao C.Li Y.Ren J.Allison I.Hou S.Sun B.Bian L.Qin X.

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Surface snow accumulation along the Chinese ITASE traverse line was measured using … bamboo stakes. Stakes along the initial (coastal) 300 km of the line were installed in 1997. The stake network was extended to 465 km in 1998, to 1100 km in 1999 and finally to 1228 … km (from the coast to Dome A)…

Mass balance measurements of the Sub-Antarctic Brown Glacier, Heard Island. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12544)

Authors:

Donoghue S.Allison I.

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Heard Island is a subantarctic island located at 530 06’ S 730 30’ E in the southern Indian … Ocean. There are 29 glacierised basins on Heard Island, which cover 70% of this 367 km2 … island. Since 1947 there has been significant retreat of the glaciers especially on the north … east coast.

Estimating long-term East Antarctic snow accumulation from automatic weather station data. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12543)

Authors:

Allison I.Thost D.

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The Australian Antarctic Division has operated automatic weather stations (AWS) at a … number of sites on the East Antarctica ice sheet for various periods of time since 1984. These AWS measure air temperature and wind speed at three levels above the surface, nominally 1 m…

Textural analysis of aerial photographs over sea ice to determine surface roughness and snow cover characteristics. Program and Abstracts of the International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness, Hobart, 5-7 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12542)

Authors:

Worby T.Steer A.

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Toward an operational sea ice analysis from AVHRR images. Program and Abstracts of the International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness, Hobart, 5-7 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12541)

Authors:

Reid P.

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The aspect sea ice observations archive: quality control, processing and management. Program and Abstracts of the International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness, Hobart, 5-7 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12540)

Authors:

Paget M.Worby T.

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