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We compare the merits of potential observatory sites on the … Antarctic Plateau, in regard to the boundary layer, cloud cover, free … atmosphere seeing, aurorae, airglow, and precipitable water vapour. We find that (a)…
The Antarctic plateau contains the best sites on earth for many forms of astronomy, but … none of the existing bases was selected with astronomy as the primary motivation. In this paper, we try to systematically compare the merits of potential observatory sites. We include South … Pole, Domes A…
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…
The brightness of the night sky at an astronomical site is one of the principal factors that determine the quality … of available optical observing time. At any site the optical night sky is always brightened with airglow, zodiacal … light, integrated starlight…
Space weather is the name given to variations in the plasma speed and density, the solar magnetic field and the radiation density in the near Earth space environment and the consequences of those variations. The consequences can be quite dramatic and have significant economic impact.
As part of a general survey of the biodiversity and inherent ecophysiology of bacteria associated with coastal Antarctic sea-ice diatom assemblages, eight strains were identified by 16S rRNA sequence analysis as belonging to the genus Colwellia. The isolates were non-pigmented…