How A Balloon-Borne Antarctic Telescope Could Help Detect An Earth 2.0
An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...
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An international team of scientists completed a study that shows how the southern migration of the westerly winds and a ...
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Wind Drainage off the High Plateau of Eastern Antarctica
Mather, K. B., Antarctic Meteorology: Proc. Symp. Melbourne, Australia, 1959, 317 (Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1960). Morita, Y., and Murakoshi, N., Antarctic Meteorology ...
On Today's Date: Antarctica's Record High; World's Coldest Town Record Low
While colder temperatures have been recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica (minus 128.6 degrees on July 21, 1983) and Klink Station, Greenland (minus 93.3 degrees on Dec. 22, 1991), Oymyakon's coldest ...
A Wedding Where Cold Feet Were to Be Expected
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The Santa Ana Winds: Nature’s Scorching Scourge
The recent Southern California wildfires, whipped out of control by strong “Santa Ana winds,” erased peoples’ lives and ...
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Research in Antarctica
At the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, researchers Marco Giometto and Adrian Brügger from Columbia Engineering and Indrani Das from Columbia Climate School's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory aim to ...