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The interaction of natural marine aerosol with clouds and radiation is a significant source of climate model uncertainty. The Southern Ocean represents a key area to understand these interactions, and a region where significant model biases exist.
Southern Ocean (SO) air is amongst the most pristine on Earth, particularly during winter. Historically, there has been a focus on biogenic sources as an explanation for the seasonal cycle in cloud condensation nuclei concentrations (NCCN). NCCN is also sensitive to the strength of sink terms…
Cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) play a fundamental role in determining the microphysical properties of low-level clouds that are crucial for defining the energy budget over the Southern Ocean (SO). However, many aspects of the CCN budget over the SO remains poorly understood…
The impact that biogenic emissions have on aerosol-cloud interactions across the Southern Ocean is poorly quantified. Here we use satellite and ship observations during austral summer to study these interactions.
Southern hemisphere humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae, SHHW) breeding populations follow a high-fidelity Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) diet while feeding in distinct sectors of the Southern Ocean.
The response of the global water cycle to changes in global surface temperature remains an outstanding question in future climate projections and in past climate reconstructions. The stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope compositions of precipitation (?precip), meteoric water (?MW) and seawater (?SW)…
Better characterisation of aerosol processes in pristine, natural environments, such as Antarctica, have recently been shown to lead to the largest reduction in uncertainties in our understanding of radiative forcing.
The oxygen and deuterium isotopic composition of ice represent a prodigal source of information for the reconstruction of past climate.
We report the first observations of simultaneous high?]latitude interhemispheric F region … neutral wind fields by combining the 630 nm optical measurements from two scanning … Doppler imagers (SDIs) and three Fabry?]Perot interferometers (FPIs) for a period … exceeding 5 h.
We report the first observations of simultaneous high-latitude inter-hemispheric F-region neutral wind fields by combining the 630 nm optical measurements from two scanning Doppler imagers and three Fabry-Perot interferometers for a period exceeding 5 hours on 3 October 2008.
La Trobe University has recently installed a new all-sky imaging Fabry-Perot spectrometer at Mawson Station, Antarctica. It is capable of recording independent spectra from many tens of locations across the sky simultaneously…
All-sky imaging Fabry-Perot spectrometers can provide two dimensional maps of thermospheric wind and temperature fields over a circular region spanning around 1400 km in diameter at F-region heights, or about half this in the E-region.
A simplified three dimensional, time-dependant model of a local region of Earth's thermosphere is being developed to investigate dynamical processes occurring over spatial scales of less than 100 km. Because hydrostatic equilibrium is not enforced in the model…
A new Scanning Doppler Imager (SDI) has been constructed and recently located to Mawson, Antarctica. The SDI is a separation scanning Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) coupled to an all-sky lens and imaging detector. This permits rapid scanning of the interference fringes over most of the sky.
We report the first observations of E-region neutral wind fields and their … interaction with auroral arcs at meso-scale spatial resolution during … geomagnetically quiet conditions at Mawson, Antarctica. This was achieved by … using a scanning Doppler imager…
We report the first observations of simultaneous high-latitude interhemispheric … F-region neutral wind fields by combining the 630 nm optical … measurements from two scanning Doppler imagers (SDI) and three … Fabry-Perot interferometers (FPI) for a period exceeding 5 hours.
We report the first observations of E region neutral wind fields and their interaction … with auroral arcs at mesoscale spatial resolution during geomagnetically quiet conditions at … Mawson, Antarctica. This was achieved by using a scanning Doppler imager…
A new all-sky imaging Fabry-Perot spectrometer … has been installed at Mawson station (67360 S, 62520 E), Antarctica. This instrument is capable of recording independent … spectra from many tens of locations across the sky simultaneously. Useful operation began in March 2007…
A local scale, time dependent three-dimensional … model of the neutral thermosphere was used to test the applicability … of two previously published empirical relations between … thermospheric vertical wind and velocity divergence, i.e., those due to Burnside et al. (1981) and Brekke (1997).
A new all-sky imaging Fabry-Perot spectrometer has been installed at … Mawson station (67°36' S, 62°52' E), Antarctica. This instrument is capable … of recording independent spectra from many tens of locations across the sky … simultaneously. Useful operation began in March 2007…