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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Antarctic climate"”.
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Antarctic climate: ocean fluxes and variability
… and the balance of fluxes around the<br/>Antarctic Circumpolar current.<br/><br/>A historical data set in the region of Drake Passage is examined to study the large-scale<br/>water mass variability between 1926-2005. The water mass properties of the Lower<br/>Circumpolar Deep Water is …
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The Design and Servicability of Antarctic Stations
Stations in Antarctica must fulfil the basic aims of providing protection from the harsh climate and a safe and comfortable environment for staff. Faur stations have been selected, from the 39 operating during the winter of 1986, and analysed for the way they match the various constraints to …
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High-Latitude Southern Hemisphere Climate Variability, Trends, and Tropical Forcing.
… investigates several inter-related aspects of climate variability in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) high-latitudes, with a focus on the time-varying behaviour and long-term trends in Antarctic sea ice and atmospheric circulation, as diagnosed from observations, reanalyses, and simulations using …
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SHARC Buoy: Robust firmware design for a novel, low-cost autonomous platform for the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone in the Southern Ocean
Sea ice in the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) plays a pivotal role in regulating heat and energy exchange between oceanic and atmospheric systems, which drive global climate. Current understanding of Southern Ocean sea ice dynamics is poor with temporal and spatial gaps in critical seasonal …
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Atmospheric circulation and the surface mass balance in a regional climate model of Antarctica
Understanding the Earth's climate system and particularly climate variability presents one of the most difficult and urgent challenges in science. The Antarctic plays a crucial role in the global climate system, since it is the principal region of radiative energy deficit and atmospheric cooling. …
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New ice core records from West Antarctica and their spatial context: from 1000 to 100,000 years
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is vulnerable to warming as a result of anthropogenic climate change, with the potential to contribute several metres to global sea level rise over the coming centuries. The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers are already undergoing acceleration due to climate …
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Antarctic Station-based Pressure Reconstructions from 1905-2011 using Principal Component Regression
<p>In Antarctica, most weather stations did not start collecting meteorological observations until the late 1950s. To extend these records and provide a more complete picture of the pressure variability at each station, this thesis reconstructs the pressure records at 18 different Antarctic …