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Antarctic krill (hereafter krill) is the key species of the Antarctic marine ecosystem as well as a target of commercial fishery in the Southern Ocean, which compels careful predictions about potential impacts of Ocean Acidification (OA)…
The origins and evolution of sub-Antarctic island floras are not well understood. In particular there is … uncertainty about the ages of the contemporary floras and the ultimate origins of the lineages they contain. Pringlea R. Br. (Brassicaceae)…
Comparison of ice core records from Law Dome, East Antarctica and meteorological records shows … that periods of strengthened atmospheric zonal wave three (ZW3) circulation drive enhanced … meridional transport of moisture and tend to produce higher snowfall at Law Dome.
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 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 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…
Over a decade of site testing in Antarctica has shown that both South Pole and Dome C are exceptional sites for … astronomy, with certain atmospheric conditions superior to those at existing mid-latitude sites. However, the highest … point on the Antarctic plateau, Dome A…
ABSTRACT. The PLATeau Observatory (PLATO) is an automated self-powered astrophysical observatory that … was deployed to Dome A, the highest point on the Antarctic plateau, in 2008 January.
The borehole BHQ, 430 m deep, was drilled in Law Dome, Antarctica, by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition in 1977. The core from BHQ was estimated to contain ice layers for about 5000 a, and was sent partly to China in 1983 for studies in detail.