The Biogeochemistry Programme
Six logistically and scientifically interlinked research projects were coordinated under the framework of the Biogeochemistry Programme. The Biogeochemistry Programme partners represented many ...
Large scale albedo and sea ice concentration – determined from SAR data in the Arctic
Sea ice albedo is an important factor determining the overall energy balance of the ocean ice-atmosphere interface and the seasonal processes of sea ice growth and decay. Changes in sea ice albedo can affect regional ...
An ODP-site survey on Lomonosov Ridge
About 100 kilometres of seismic data were acquired within a small area at 87°30’N on the Lomonosov Ridge in support of ODP proposal 533 for scientific ...
The Atmospheric Programme – sources of airborne particles over the remote Arctic Ocean and their climatic relevance
All current atmospheric models of how the atmosphere will respond to increasing emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning ...
Aerosol dry deposition velocity measured at Wasa, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
Wet and dry deposition are the ultimate paths by which trace gases and particles are removed from the atmosphere. Dry deposition is the transport of species, ...
Alexander Island 2000 – south to the end of the line
... glacial history of the Antarctic Peninsula region, including the South Shetland Islands, has become much enhanced of late. Recent years have seen an increasing number of expeditions of various nationalities studying glacial and glaciomarine ...
Glaciological studies in East Antarctica
The field effort this season was basically focussed to objectives within the SCAR-ISMASS-ITASE-ANTIME initiatives. It is an extension of the programme which has been run by the Department of Physical Geography in Dronning Maud ...
The neutrino telescope AMANDA at the South Pole
The AMANDA detector for high energy cosmic neutrinos is under construction deep in the glacier at the Amundsen Scott Base at the South Pole, Antarctica. The scientific goals are, among others, to use neutrino particles ...
Environmental issues
Environmental management is a crucial part of all Swedish activities in Antarctica. In co-operation with Finland and Norway, a Nordic Environmental Handbook/Antarctic Operations has been developed. The handbook covers ...
A Swedish geodetic survey in Antarctica
The Department of Geodesy and Photogrammetry of KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, participated in SWEDARP 1991/92, 1993/94 and 1997. For the 1999/2000 expedition, the Swedish team stayed in Antarctica for about ...
Late Quaternary glaciation history of Jameson Land, East Greenland
Long-term global climate modelling is partly based on proxy data obtained from glacial geological records. During the Quaternary, the Northern ...
Archaeological fieldwork at Andréenäset, Vitön, Spitsbergen – a preliminary report
... hydrogen balloon, the Eagle, remained airborne for 65.5 hours, after which the three men walked on the sea ice, ultimately reaching White Island at 81°05,0’N 31°26,2’E on 5 October 1897. After this point only partly legible additions were ...
The history of climatology in the Arctic: German weather stations at Spitzbergen 1941–1945
The overall aim of this new international history of science project is to study the establishment of the science of climatology in the Arctic in the late ...
The preservation of artefacts in the Arctic environment
The general opinion is that the Arctic climate is more preserving for both organic and inorganic materials in comparison with the middle European ...
Timan-Kanin international expedition
... of North America, Greenland, Europe and Asia, and from fragments of evidence provided by the high Arctic islands, scattered along the shelves of the Amerasian and Eurasian basins. Geophysical surveys (particularly potential field and ...
NorthGRIP – Deep ice core drilling on the Greenland ice sheet
NorthGRIP is the latest deep ice core drilling programme on the Greenland ice sheet. This multinational research programme is partly funded ...
Ship timbers on the Arctic shores of Svalbard – a marine archaeological study
One definition of archaeology is that it is the systematic study of past material remains with the purpose of generating knowledge of human social and ...
The mineral riches of Svalbard in historical perspective
... detailed knowledge of the almost unknown prospecting and mining activities of Swedish mining industrialists operating on Svalbard in the first decades of the 20th century. The most important initiator of these activities was the joint ...
The History of Science of Svalbard
Studying in detail the development of western knowledge on the polar regions tells us many things of what is exceptional about these parts of the world in that regard and what is in fact similar to conditions of knowledge ...
The neutrino telescope AMANDA at the South Pole
... just below the detector. The neutrino itself has most probably been produced in a cosmic ray interaction in the atmosphere above the North Pole and then travelled through the entire Earth and interacted close to the AMANDA detector. ...