Report of the 2007/2008 Japanese-Swedish joint Antarctic traverse:I. Planning, preparations, and outline of scientific achievements

In the seventh five-year plan of the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, a group of Japanese scientists (led by the National Institute of Polar Research) together with a group of Swedish scientists, conducted field surveys to better understand the glaciology of the ice sheet in Dronning Maud Lan...

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Main Authors: Shuji Fujita, Kotaro Fukui, Fumio Nakazawa, Hiroyuki Enomoto, Shin Sugiyama, Yoshiyuki Fujii, Koji Fujita, Teruo Furukawa, Keiichiro Hara, Yu Hoshina, Makoto Igarashi, Yoshinori Iizuka, Satoshi Imura, Hideaki Motoyama, Sylviane Surdyk, Ryu Uemura
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Japanese
Published: National Institute of Polar Research 2014
Subjects:
Geography (General)
G1-922
Antarctic
East Antarctica
Austral
Dronning Maud Land
Antarc*
Antarctica
Ice Sheet
National Institute of Polar Research
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.15094/00010711
https://doaj.org/article/c39f594ee0a64e72b153879baaaaeaeb
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Summary:In the seventh five-year plan of the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, a group of Japanese scientists (led by the National Institute of Polar Research) together with a group of Swedish scientists, conducted field surveys to better understand the glaciology of the ice sheet in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, during the 2007/2008 austral summer season. This paper reports on the planning and field preparations, and outlines the scientific achievements of the field expedition. We have gained numerous new scientific insights on the spatio-temporal distribution of the ice sheet environment in the inland plateau. Here, we provide an overview of the new knowledge gained.

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