... and sediment accumulation. The study area was chosen because the Inland Ice margin in this region is known for its vigorous response to climate change such as the Little Ice Age and the recent warming in the 20th and 21st century. Fieldwork ...
... ice (picture 2); the large number and depth of melt ponds caused the ice to break easily. We also had periods of vigorous weather, which is somewhat unusual in summer. As we travelled north of 87˚N, we started to encounter stronger ice and ...
... and the Ross Sea Polynya (RP) along the cruise track. Aim The overall aim for the proposed project is to evaluate algorithms with multiple regression for the estimation of surface water CO2 using remotely sensed data together with ...
... geophysical products of sea ice like those from AMSR-E/Aqua, ICESat, and MODIS, and aimed at improving extant algorithms. Real-time transfer of weather information began on 17 December 2006 and transfers to the NOAA tele-communication ...
... & Söner. Rabassa, J., Coronato, A., Bujalesky, G., Salemme, M., Roig, C., Meglioli, A., Heusser, C., Gordillo, S., Roig, F., Borromei, A. and Quattrocchio, M. 2000. Quaternary of Tierra del Fuego, southernmost South America: ...
The 36-bottle rosette sampler is taken out of its container in preparation for the next cast. From the left: Jim Swift, Peter Winsor, Bert Rudels and Frank Zemlyak. Photo: Göran Björk Objective The overarching objective of the oceanography project...
... that influence these measurements. This will provide valuable knowledge for both thermodynamic modelling and algorithm development in remote sensing-based applications. Data were acquired using infrared and microwave instruments ...
... and landforms: a global review. Earth-Science Reviews 55: 107-134. Rea, B.R., Whalley, W.B., Rainey, M.M. and Gordon, J.E. 1996. Blockfields, old or new? Evidence and implications from some plateaus in northern ...
... and leadership. The expedition was partly ship-based, being transported by the Russian Hydrographic Survey ship Gorizont on 27 July from Murmansk to Novaya Zemlya (c. 50 hours} and back on 7 August. The bedrock group included a wide ...
... (figure 1). Changes in the position of these boundaries affect the climate on South Georgia profoundly (Hansom and Gordon, 1998). Map of South Georgia A key question in the Antarctic is the extent of the ice and the timing of the Last ...
... Lokrantz, H., Ingólfsson, Ó., and Forman, S.L., 2003, Glaciotectonised Quaternary sediments at Cape Shpindler, Yugorski Peninsula, Arctic Russia: implications for glacial history, ice movements and Kara Sea Ice Sheet ...
Gorely volcano, south of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Photo: Anders Karlqvist Kamchatka Polar research in Kamchatka may seem ...
Our international NW Spitsbergen team. From left to right – Igor Kamenev, Claude Lepvrier, Alexander Tebenkov, Victoria Pease, Loic Labrousse, Synnøve Elvevold, and Carl Pettersson. ...
... million. These observations are comparable to other sites where spills have occurred in Antarctica. (Deprez, 1999, Gore, 1999 and Krzyszowska, 1990). Other than the most volatile compounds it is likely that these spills will remain since ...
Aim of the project In continental Antarctica macroscopic life is restricted to a few categories of organisms. The most numerous are lichens, numbering up to perhaps around 100 identified species, followed by ...
... the Last Glacial Maximum wide-spread sand sheets were deposited in a polar desert environment. Our results from the Yugorskiy Peninsula (Ingólfsson, 1999, Manley et al., 2001 and Lokrantz et al., in press) indicate at least two Late ...
... Mackey et al., (1996) developed the matrix factorisation program CHEMTAX. The program uses the steepest-descent algorithm to determine the best fit based on an estimate of pigment/chl a ratios for different algal classes. The work on ...
... of Geology, Lund University Sweden Principal investigator Eiliv Larsen Geological Survey of Norway Trondheim, Norway Igor Demidov Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences Petrozavodsk, Russia Svend Funder Geological ...
... measurements will be used to determine the relationship between albedo and sea ice extent derived from SAR images. Algorithms to determine sea ice extent from SAR data have been developed in the Arctic (Dokken, 2000, Kwok, 1998). SAR data ...
... information system programmes, one can make pictures of the station and vicinity that highlight different categories of objects one category at a time. The presence of batteries and radio and antenna components could, for instance, ...
