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Chapter 12: Phytoplankton Report Card of Marine Climate Change for Australia: detailed scientific assessment, NCCARF Publication 05/09, 2009 (Ref: 14084)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Prediction of the impact of global climate change on marine phytoplankton is fraught with uncertainties. Increasing temperature, enhanced surface stratification, alteration of ocean currents, intensification or weakening of local nutrient upwelling, stimulation of photosynthesis by elevated CO2…

Decadal-scale variability in the meridional circulation of Southern Ocean Upper Circumpolar Deep Water AGU Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Cairns, August 2008, 2008 (Ref: 13743)
Category 3: Verbal presentation

The upwelling of iron-rich Upper Circumpolar Deep Water (UCDW) is thought to be critical for primary production in the Southern Ocean, since iron has been shown to be a limiting factor in what is otherwise a high nutrient region.

Comparing Present and Paleo Ice Flow in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica First Antarctic Climate Evolution Symposium, Granada, Spain, 7-11 September 2009, 2009 (Ref: 13923)
Category 3: Poster

Reconstructing and modeling extent and dynamics of ice sheets is crucial in … understanding and predicting the evolution of ice sheets. Key to ice sheet dynamics are ice … streams, which drain most of the ice from the ice sheet interior to the ice shelves, where most of … the ice is lost.

Properties of a marine ice layer under the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica Journal of Glaciology, 2009 (Ref: 13931)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, undergoes high basal melt rates near the southern … limit of its grounding line where 80% of the ice melts within 240km of becoming afloat. A considerable … portion of this later refreezes downstream as marine ice.

Remote sensing space weather events: Antarctic-Arctic Radiation-belt (Dynamic) Deposition - VLF Atmospheric Research Konsortium network Space Weather, 2009 (Ref: 13744)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The Antarctic-Arctic Radiation-belt (Dynamic) Deposition-VLF Atmospheric Research Konsortium … (AARDDVARK) provides a network of continuous long-range observations of the lower ionosphere in the … polar regions.

Transport and evolution of smoke from the 2009 Australian bushfires at extratropical southern latitudes: analysis using the 'match' approach 36th Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods, Kyiv, Ukraine, 17-22 August 2009, 2009 (Ref: 14051)
Category 3: Conference paper

As revealed by the CALIPSO orbiting lidar, the intense firestorms that occurred … in southern Australia during February 2009 injected a significant plume of … smoke particles into the lower stratosphere. Over the following weeks…

Role of off-shelf to on-shelf transitions for East Antarctic sea ice dynamics during spring 2003 Journal of Geophysical Research, 2009 (Ref: 14062)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

During austral spring 2003, mesoscale sea ice drift and deformation off East … Antarctica were investigated using in situ data from a nine-buoy array. Upon deployment, the array comprised an area of about 4000 km2 with a mean ice concentration of 96%.

Diurnal Variations of Global Thunderstorms and Electrified Shower Clouds and Their Contribution to the Global Electrical Circuit Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2010 (Ref: 14045)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The long-standing mainstay of support for C. T. R. Wilson’s global circuit hypothesis is the similarity … between the diurnal variation of thunderstorm days in universal time and the Carnegie curve of electrical … potential gradient.

Spatial and seasonal distribution of adult Oithona similis in the Southern Ocean: Predictions using boosted regression trees Deep-Sea Research I, 2010 (Ref: 14041)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

We applied a multivariate statistical modelling technique called boosted regression trees to derive relationships between environmental conditions and the distribution of the adult stage of the cyclopoid copepod Oithona similis in the Southern Ocean.

An analysis of the environmental energetics associated with the transition of the first South Atlantic hurricane Geophysical Research Letters, 2008 (Ref: 14006)
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)
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)
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)
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…

Comparing plasma and faecal measures of steroid hormones in Adelie penguins Pygoscelis adeliae Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 2010 (Ref: 13996)
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)
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…

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)
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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…

A small, high-efficiency diesel generator for high-altitude use in Antarctica International Journal of Energy Research, 2009 (Ref: 14011)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

We have characterised a small, high-efficiency diesel generator selected to power remote experiments on the Antarctic … plateau at altitudes of up to 5000 m.

Parasite diversity of Nyctiphanes simplex and Nematoscelis difficilis (Crustacea: Euphausiacea) along the northwestern coast of Mexico Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 2010 (Ref: 13971)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The diversity of parasites found on Nyctiphanes simplex and Nematoscelis difficilis … (Order Euphausiacea) was compared during 10 oceanographic cruises made off both coasts of the … Baja California peninsula, Mexico. We tested the hypothesis that N.

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