Sentences with phrase «austral winter»

Extreme cold can prevent aircraft from operating, and could maroon the team at the station during the total darkness and bitter temperatures of austral winter.

Matthewman, N. J., and G. Magnusdottir, 2012: Clarifying ambiguity in intraseasonal Southern Hemisphere climate modes during austral winter.

Physician Alexander Kumar and Erick Bondoux, two residents passing austral winter at Concordia, snapped this photo of the dramatic aurorae over the station on July 18.

Due to the extreme cold and darkness during the Antarctic austral winter, both cameras may experience downtime or even be disabled to protect the hardware.

As the sun reemerged over the Antarctic horizon in August after the long, dark austral winter, satellites could once again peer at a rift that has been wending its way across the white expanse of the Larsen C Ice Shelf on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula.

The weather station showed that surface melt occurred in every month except July, the dead of austral winter.

Moreover, they hibernate for several months during the austral winter.

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.

Submarine personnel first described the oddly repetitive call, which is one of the most common sounds in that ocean during the austral winter.

Traditional glass - paneled walls would be useless during the endless night of the Austral winter, and the nearest soil is kilometers below the station, beneath the largest mass of ice on Earth — the 2 - kilometer - thick Antarctic ice sheet.

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).

The reason is that the cold Humboldt current which travels northward up the coast of Chile and Peru during the Austral winter months of May - November creates prevailing onshore wind conditions during this period, with the wind and swell coming from the same direction.

In the Austral winter (June to October) the Lake District town of Bariloche is a ski resort: at other times of year it is the place to go hiking through ancient rainforest around lakes of peppermint green.

In the meantime, the thin floating veneer of sea ice that forms each austral winter and fades in summer has been larger than usual lately, in contrast to the sharp summer sea - ice retreats in the Arctic.

In fact, as I proposed in my overview of ice trends last October, the system up there may be becoming more like the sea ice around Antarctica, which flashes into existence each austral winter and then all disappears each southern summer.

However, it instead has happened this austral winter with loss of an additional 160 km2 of ice.

They had begun creating a dramatic «hole» in the ozone layer at the end of each austral winter.

Led by the Antarctic Marine Living Resources program at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, our crew gathered data during the austral winter to better understand how populations of krill — tiny shrimplike crustaceans that are the main food source for many species of penguins, seals, and whales — are being altered by factors such as climate change and declining sea ice.

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.

In the twilight of the austral winter, for a few hours every day, the sea ice turns a fiery orange as shadow puppets trace the cracks across slow - moving waves.

They reported an annual warming of West Antarctica of 0.18 °C / decade for 1957 — 2006, maximized in the austral winter and spring.

It's possible that 40 years of increased El Nino (because of a positive IPO) may have bumped up the temperatures in the austral winter.