Sentences with phrase «austral summer»

We determine its likely evolution for three intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) special report on emission scenarios (SRES) for austral summer and winter, using a multi-model ensemble of IPCC fourth assessment report models which resolve stratospheric ozone recovery.

Amundsen - Scott South Pole Station, dedicated in January 2008, begins austral summer operations in October of each year.

Since 1978, the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) has sent between four and 12 people at a time to spend austral summers (5 to 7 weeks, generally between mid-November and January) searching glaciers and ice fields for meteorite impacts.

Shortly after radio - echo sounding was introduced in Antarctica, radio - echo flights during the 1969 - 1970 austral summer identified five ice streams that entered the Ross Ice Shelf from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

For example, austral summer minimum ice extents have varied by as much as 25 % over the 1979 to 2014 modern satellite record.

The 12 scientists and support staff made a slow crawl across a vast, blank stretch of East Antarctica this past austral summer for three months to study how regional climate variability relates to global climate change expected to encounter brutally cold storms and other challenges on the high polar plateau.

Hoell A. and L. Cheng (July 2017): Austral summer Southern Africa precipitation extremes forced by the El Niño - Southern oscillation and the subtropical Indian Ocean dipole.

Figure 1 shows the differences between the 2012/2013 austral summer SSTs compared to the summer climatology (average over all years) of the OSTIA dataset from 1985 - 2010 (shown in Figure 2).

During the past 30 - 40 years, the SAM has gradually strengthened during austral summer (Marshall 2003), due mainly to human - caused stratospheric ozone depletion.

With less than three weeks until the Pope's arrival, Chilean authorities said they were working with the Roman Catholic Church to prepare for an onslaught of tourists at the peak of the austral summer, a traditional time for vacationing in both countries.

The austral summer of 1995 opened some eyes.

During the austral summer — October through February — the sun never sets here, but it does fall closer to the horizon, which spreads a narrow spectrum of warm light across the landscape, drawing out vivid, contrasting hues.

Lloyd helped deploy research seismometers across the West Antarctic Rift System and Marie Byrd Land in the austral summer of 2009 - 10.

Our first stop in Antarctica is McMurdo Station, home to 1,000 people during the Austral summer field season, from November to February.

An austral summer sun — above the horizon 24 hours a day from late October until late February in this region of the continent — glints off the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

The analysis produced a genetic match between a female whale observed and sampled off the coast of southern Chile in the Austral summer of 2006; it turned out the same whale sampled the waters of the Galapagos eight years earlier by NOAA scientists.

As ice melts in the austral summer, pools of water fill the cracks that inevitably develop in any floating ice shelf as a result of bending and squeezing by the surrounding ocean.

During the austral summer of 2016, they joined the crew of the research ship R / V Revelle and cruised north from Antarctica to Australia, braving frequent storms to collect samples every 30 nautical miles.

He compares the number of days that tourists spent ashore in Antarctica in one year (the 1992 austral winter and the 1992 - 93 austral summer) with the number of days spent by scientists in the same period.

NSF operates three Antarctic stations — at McMurdo Sound, the South Pole, and the tip of the western peninsula — which support as many as 1200 scientists during the austral summer from October to February.

Japan plans to resume research whaling during the 2015 to 2016 austral summer.

During Austral Summer the camera's view is zoomed out, showing fuel storage containers in the foreground, and housing, maintenance, and administrative facilities in the center.

Beginning in the austral summer of 2017/2018 SALSA aims gather new knowledge about the Antarctic Subglacial Environment through sampling from Subglacial Lake Mercer.

Princess Elisabeth Antarctica is designed to withstand the hardships of the Antarctic winter, but is currently occupied during the Austral summer only (November - February) in almost permanent daylight.

At an elevation of 2,835 meters (9,300 feet), South Pole has an average monthly temperature in the austral summer of -28 °C -LRB--18 °F); in the austral winter, the average monthly temperature is -60 °C -LRB--76 °F).

Lidar was collected in the austral summer of 2014 - 2015 with the objective of studying geomorphic changes over the past decade.

In the 2011 - 12 Austral summer, Azamara Journey guests can choose a three - night Buenos Aires & Iguazu Falls land - tour holiday extension to experience all the culture, flavours, and colours of this vibrant South American city.

Since we are now officially in an ENSO that is supposed to last through the austral summer, the likelihood of yet another dry year in the southeast seems good.

Global maps of serial correlation in non-linearly detrended monthly time - series for boreal summer (top) and austral summer (bottom).

Sunset over Palmer Station as sea ice begins to move out of the bay in preparation for the austral summer.

I extended this analysis to look at the diurnal variability in other parts of the globe, such as over the amazon basin during austral summer, but the results were mixed.

6 April 2002: Record - high temperatures and melting in the austral summer earlier this year caused significant glacier acceleration.

Temperature patterns vary so widely because the continent is covered in continuous darkness during the austral winter and continuous sunlight during the austral summer, with a few weeks of sunrises and sunsets in between seasons.

Finds the annual mean temperature has decreased at a statistically significant rate, with the most rapid cooling during the Austral summer

The rapid early reduction in sea ice cover in this region may create favorable conditions for the break up of the eastern Peninsula ice shelves at the end of austral summer.

«The record comes less than four months after an altogether different mark was set at the South Pole during the austral summer.