Conservation Letters, 2022 Remote, high‐latitude oceans can prove challenging for the designation and implementation of marine protected areas (MPAs), partly due to issues in monitoring inaccessible localities and large spatial scales.
Michelle LaRue +4 more
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Basal mass balance and prevalence of ice tongues in the Western ross sea
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Ice tongues at the fringes of the Antarctic ice sheet lose mass primarily through both basal melting and calving. They are sensitive to ocean conditions which can weaken the ice both mechanically or through thinning.
Rodrigo Gomez-Fell +4 more
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Coronavirus at the end of the world: Antarctica matters
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2020 The potential impact of coronavirus in Antarctica through tourism and scientific research as well as the Antarctic Treaty System is reviewed over three time periods.
Bob Frame, Alan D. Hemmings
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Health challenges on research and cruise ship expeditions to Antarctica
Health Promotion & Physical Activity, 2022 Antarctica is one of the last great wilderness areas on Earth. Early Antarctic expeditions during the Heroic Age of Antarctic discovery (1895–1922) returned reports of frostbite, scurvy, snow blindness, and death.
Travis Heggie, Thomas Küpper
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The variability of climate in Indian Ocean sector of East Antarctica over the past 350 years
Лëд и снег, 2015 The temperature and snow accumulation rate anomaly over the past 350 years have been reconstructed based on isotopic composition of shallow ice cores and snow pits samples as well as glaciological observations in pits and at stake farms located in Indian
D. O. Vladimirova +2 more
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Snow-driven uncertainty in CryoSat-2-derived Antarctic sea ice thickness – insights from McMurdo Sound [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2019 Knowledge of the snow depth distribution on Antarctic sea ice is poor but is critical to obtaining sea ice thickness from satellite altimetry measurements of the freeboard.
D. Price +3 more
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On the interpretation of ice-shelf flexure measurements
Journal of Glaciology, 2017 Tidal flexure in ice shelf grounding zones has been used extensively in the past to determine grounding line position and ice properties. Although the rheology of ice is viscoelastic at tidal loading frequencies, most modelling studies have assumed some ...
SEBASTIAN H. R. ROSIER +5 more
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Effects of hydrocarbon spills on the temperature and moisture regimes of Cryosols in the Ross Sea region [PDF]
, 2002 Hydrocarbon spills have occurred on Antarctic soils where fuel oils are utilized, moved or stored. We investigated the effects of hydrocarbon spills on soil temperature and moisture regimes by comparing the properties of existing oil contaminated sites ...
Aislabie, Jackie M. +4 more
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Influence of Sea-Ice Anomalies on Antarctic Precipitation Using Source Attribution in the Community Earth System Model [PDF]
, 2020 We conduct sensitivity experiments using a general circulation model that has an explicit water source tagging capability forced by prescribed composites of pre-industrial sea-ice concentrations (SICs) and corresponding sea surface temperatures (SSTs) to
Fyke, Jeremy G. +7 more
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Climate Change and invasibility of the Antarctic benthos [PDF]
, 2007 Benthic communities living in shallow-shelf habitats in Antarctica (<100-m depth) are archaic in their structure and function. Modern predators, including fast-moving, durophagous (skeleton-crushing) bony fish, sharks, and crabs, are rare or absent ...
A Brandt +62 more
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