... narrow, shallow connection to the Pacific. The heat loss in the Arctic Mediterranean cools the upper water masses, making them denser. They convect, forming intermediate and deep waters that recross the Greenland-Scotland Ridge and sink into ...
... runway maintenance and service, e.g. meteorological, than a temporary camp can. To further develop the concept, a working group was formed by the interested parties at the COMNAP meeting in Amsterdam, 2001. The DROMLAN (Dronning Maud Land Air ...
... depths was found to be sufficient for a neutrino detector. The deeper detector is named AMANDA-B10 and has been taking data since January 1997. During the season 1997/98 three additional strings were deployed at depth between 1200 and 2350 ...
... fit our sampling needs. The basic programme consisted of steaming to a 300 m deep station 1 hour south of Godhavn, taking samples for chemistry and biology for 6 hours and then returning to the lab. While sampling we deployed drifting ...
... with the Swedish icebreaker Oden (Anderson et al., 1994) and the Arctic ’96 expedition with the German ice breaking research vessel Polarstern (Schauer et al., 2001). As a complement to these sections, there is a shorter section by ...
... Lomonosov Ridge. The proposal, backed by a proponent grouped of 10 scientists from seven countries (NAD Regional Working Group on Lomonosov Ridge), is presently the highest ranked undrilled proposal in the Ocean Drilling Program. The ...
... system was provided for this expedition, this time also including a ”pulse height analyser” for looking at the smallest sized particles smaller than 5 nm with the addition of an aerodynamic particle sizer for extending the ...
... which had previously worked with these problems further north along the Antarctic Peninsula, and from the United Kingdom-group which did the original study on Alexander Island. Field-work The field -work on Alexander Island took place ...
... 2000 metres. The reason was that the diameter of the hole was too narrow at this depth. A new procedure for checking the holes produced by the drilling team will be introduced to avoid this problem in the future. AMANDA has successfully ...
... for the surveys. Geodetic tasks were incorporated in to the SCAR GPS campaign 2000, and these included making a sea-level connection from Rampen to the Wasa station, extending the gravity network around Wasa and carrying out ...
... by other mechanisms. Two distinct modes of ice-sheet response to global climatic changes are indicated by the striking differences between glacial records from Greenland and northern Eurasia. The Greenland ice-sheet has long remained ...
... us from even going ashore. Snowdrifts now covered much of the site area and a cold northerly wind forced working temperatures down to minus 20 degrees centigrade. Work on the map continued on 31 August, and Johan Olofsson, from the ...
... arctic latitudes. Arctic weather has for obvious reasons long been an object of study – for sailors and fishermen working and living in the North, and also for scientists travelling in the area. Strange northern atmospheric phenomena, such as ...
... was fascinating – the frozen event. Without being pointed out by signs and maps the ancient remains are shockingly accessible when you find them. The tourism is increasing, research expeditions are moving and the islanders are also ...
... at home by ion chromatography (IC), and filter samples were collected for electron microscopy. Results The most striking result was that although, based on present knowledge of the Greenland ice sheet and the most developed ice flow models, ...
... was formulated for the 2000 expedition. Ship timber driftwood The survey technique used consisted of walking along the beaches at different levels. Because the elevation varies greatly over Svalbard, it was supposed that older ...
... first decades of the 20th century. The most important initiator of these activities was the joint research and banking institute of the Swedish mining and metallurgical industry, the Jernkontoret (The Swedish Ironmaster’s ...
... intense discussions among 19th century geographers on this subject the islands, or the would-be new continent, of King Charles Land (today Kong Karls Land) takes on particular significance. This is not the place to go in to all the ...
... depths was found to be sufficient for a neutrino detector. The deeper detector is named AMANDA-B10 and has been taking data since January 1997. During the 1997/98 season three additional strings were deployed at depths of between 1 200 and ...
... August 2000 we will presumably learn if our proposal will be scheduled for drilling. If it is successful, we are looking towards year 2003 for the field operation. 2. Developing a modern digital bathymetric data base for the Arctic The data ...
