ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC
Assessment of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice predictability in CMIP5 decadal hindcasts
... the Arctic and the seasonal to interannual ...September Arctic sea ice extent has been obtained from the research community since ...central Arctic but some predictability at sea ice edge zones in ...
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The polar sublime in contemporary poetry of Arctic and Antarctic exploration
... the Antarctic plateau, but differs in asserting that the sublime is first and foremost a ‘landscape category’,59 a category in response to which ‘language ...the Antarctic plateau in October 1903, Scott ...
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Analysis of the performance of a ship-borne scanning wind lidar in the Arctic and Antarctic
... available, techniques like the “virtual tower” can be applied (Calhoun et al., 2006; Damian et al., 2014). In synergy with additional remote-sensing instruments measuring the tem- perature profile, the turbulent mixing ...
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On the influence of model physics on simulations of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice
... We have investigated the sensitivity of an ocean-sea ice model to the representation of physics in its sea ice com- ponent: two hindcast simulations have been studied over the period 1983–2007, for both Arctic and ...
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A compendium and functional characterization of mammalian genes involved in adaptation to Arctic or Antarctic environments
... Here we present a compendium comprising of 416 mam- malian genes involved in adaptations to cold environments. These 416 genes were revealed based on the intersections of positively selected gene lists from six mammalian ...
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New estimates of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extent during September 1964 from recovered Nimbus I satellite imagery
... Here we analyze data from the Nimbus I AVCS sensor and demonstrate the ability to obtain useful sea ice extent estimates as well as other potential information on the sea ice cover. Nimbus I did not reach its planned ...
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Empirical parametrization of Envisat freeboard retrieval of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice based on CryoSat-2: progress in the ESA Climate Change Initiative
... During the first phase of SICCI (SICCI-1), the focus was set on creating a processing scheme for Envisat data with the possibility of deriving Arctic and Antarctic sea-ice freeboard and sea-ice thickness ...
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Brief communication: Increasing shortwave absorption over the Arctic Ocean is not balanced by trends in the Antarctic
... 1a). Antarctic sea ice ex- tent increased ...the Arctic is weaker in March with a loss of − .... Arctic sea ice extent losses are thus 5 times larger in magnitude than the small in- creases in ice ...
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Uncovering biological soil crusts: carbon content and structure of intact Arctic, Antarctic and alpine biological soil crusts
... Currently, these high-altitude and high-latitude ecosys- tems are experiencing the effects of human-induced envi- ronmental changes that are expected by many prospective predictions to be large in magnitude and have ...
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A Polarizing Dilemma: Assessing Potential Regulatory Gap-Filling Measures for Arctic and Antarctic Marine Genetic Resource Access and Benefit Sharing
... To understand the current status of the debates over MGR access and benefit sharing, it is useful first to place the debate in its larger political and ideological[r] ...
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Non stationary drivers of polar sea ice area
... the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice areas suggest the accelerations shown by the secular trends are relatively short-lived and reversible within an interval of one-quarter (15-years) to one-half (30-years) of ...
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The landscape of European Polar Research
... This document provides a strategic overview and portfolio of European polar research infrastructures in the Arctic and Antarctic controlled and owned by European countries inclusive of the Russian ...
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Adaptations to polar life in mammals and birds
... This Review presents a broad overview of adaptations of truly Arctic and Antarctic mammals and birds to the challenges of polar life. The polar environment may be characterized by grisly cold, scarcity of ...
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Diversity of culturable psychrotrophic bacteria from arctic soil samples
... and antarctic), ocean, freshwater, sediments, soils, permafrost, ice, glaciers, cold deserts, alpine soils, lakes and snow (Fendrihan and Negoiţă, ...The arctic is one of the coldest environment found at ...
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Not poles apart: Antarctic soil fungal communities show similarities to those of the distant Arctic
... In this study, we found a higher than expected number of fungi shared between soils in Antarctica and those at high northern latitudes, as well as fungi that display apparently bipolar distributions. These findings have ...
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Vascular Plants of the Maritime Antarctic: Origin and Adaptation
... the Antarctic remains ...in Antarctic vascular plants are only ...maritime Antarctic with the alternating development of newly formed ice-sheets thereby a wide distribution and formation of a ...
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The Discursive Constitution of Ocean Sustainability
... Arctic Monitoring Assessment Programme Assessment of Assessment Convention on Biological Diversity Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources Commission on the [r] ...
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Spatial, temporal and within-species variation in the foraging ecology of a marine predator across a dynamic seascape
... press). Abundance or density estimates for ringed seals have not been conducted near the Labrador region encompassing Saglek Bay. No discernable relationship between ringed seal density and TINW or IS was apparent, in ...
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Antarctica aviation: Accidents and safety policy
... the Antarctic region and the operation policy aimed at avoiding such ...in Antarctic aviation operations including recent developments in adventure tourism ...
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Sustainable development and the Arctic : An imperative in search of a uniting agenda
... The ARC delegation from St Andrews had a particular focus on the activities of the Social & Human Working Group (SHWG). The latter is looking at the impact of changing natural habitats on indigenous peoples and their ...
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