2019-20 Honours project - Identifying atmospheric processes favouring the formation of physical features in the Mount Brown South ice core

Ice cores from Mount Brown South (MBS), East Antarctica, were drilled to help understand the past atmospheric circulation variability in the southern Indian Ocean and southwest Pacific Ocean. There are visible bubble-free layers occurring frequently multiple times a year, and the origin of these fea...

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Other Authors: Zhang, Lingwei (hasPrincipalInvestigator), Zhang, Lingwei (pointOfContact), Vance, Tessa, Dr (hasPrincipalInvestigator), Fraser, Alex, Dr (hasPrincipalInvestigator), Jong, Lenneke, Dr (hasPrincipalInvestigator), Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) (hasAssociationWith), Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC) (hasAssociationWith)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: University of Tasmania, Australia
Subjects:
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
PALEOCLIMATE INDICATORS
EARTH SCIENCE
CLIMATE INDICATORS
ICE CORE RECORDS
Climatology (excl. Climate Change Processes)
EARTH SCIENCES
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Physical Oceanography
OCEANOGRAPHY
East Antarctica
Indian
Mount Brown
Pacific
South Ice
Antarc*
Antarctica
ice core
Online Access:https://researchdata.edu.au/2019-20-honours-ice-core/1601286
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https://data.imas.utas.edu.au/attachments/729b4cbc-6b5c-4cec-a527-ccb01c063453/Thesis_Lingwei_Zhang.pdf
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Summary:Ice cores from Mount Brown South (MBS), East Antarctica, were drilled to help understand the past atmospheric circulation variability in the southern Indian Ocean and southwest Pacific Ocean. There are visible bubble-free layers occurring frequently multiple times a year, and the origin of these features is still unknown. This project aims to determine whether the bubble-free layers in the MBS ice core can be related to atmospheric processes. ERA-5 data, including surface (skin) temperature, 2 metre air temperature, wind at 10 metre height, the mean surface downward short-wave radiation flux and snowfall, is used to assess the target climate variables from 1979 to 2017 at the ice core sites. ERA-5 data used in this study were obtained from the Research Data Archive (https://rda.ucar.edu/).

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