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The IPY: A Success Story
02.03.2009
Scientists and policymakers gathered at the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday 25 February to mark the end of the fourth International Polar Year.
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Freshwater Building up in the Arctic Ocean
24.02.2009
Recent observations show that freshwater is building up in the Arctic Ocean, and that a change in wind direction might release the largest amount of freshwater through the Fram Strait ever witnessed, which in turn may have a significant impact on deep water formation in the Northern North Atlantic.
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Fresh Report on the Status of Observations in the Arctic
24.02.2009
The Integrated Arctic Ocean Observing System (iAOOS), a coordination programme program designed to help achieve optimal coordination of funded projects during the IPY, has recently issued a report giving an overview of the state of research on Arctic change.
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Delaying the Next Ice Age
20.02.2009
According to new study from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, we may be able to regulate the Earth's climate and even delay the start of the next ice age for as much as 500,000 years by controlling carbon emissions released by fossil fuel combustion.
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New Record for Super Pressure Balloon
12.02.2009
NASA's new super pressure balloon, launched from McMurdo Station in Antarctica on December 28th, 2008 has set a new record for weather balloons. The balloon, carrying a basic instrumentation package, as well as the space physics programme BARREL (Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses), stayed aloft for a record…
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CO2 Trapping Theory Dealt Major Blow
30.01.2009
The theory of adding iron to the oceans to help sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide cheaply and efficiently has suffered a major blow, according to research published in this week's edition of Nature, show that the amount of carbon that can be sequestered in the deep waters of the Southern Ocean…
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Polarstern to Drop 20 Tonnes of Iron Sulphate near Antartica
13.01.2009
The Polarstern, a German research ship from the Alfred Wegener Institute, has left Cape Town, South Africa and is now on a mission near the island of South Georgia in the Southern Ocean. The ship is being used for the LOHAFEX experiment, a collaboration between German and Indian scientists. The…
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Melting Arctic Sea Ice Leads to Colder Winter in the North Atlantic
12.01.2009
A research team led by Kjetil VÅge and Robert Pickart of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution examined new data collected from robotic floats that have been drifting in the Labrador and Irminger Seas in the North Atlantic for several years now. The floats, which monitor the sinking of cold water,…
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ESA Satellites Focusing on the Arctic
19.12.2008
Human activity and its consequences have caused major transformations in the Arctic. The region has seen a sharp rise in both shipping and tourism due to the receding ice cap extent. But a warmer Arctic is also goes hand in hand with a dramatic rise in the number of icebergs…
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A Moderately High Ozone Hole
05.11.2008
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been monitoring the status of the ozone layer through satellite observations since the 1970s. This year, 2008, the extent of the Antarctic ozone hole is the fifth largest ever recorded.
