Antarctic Peninsula Ice Shelves Disintegration Monitoring & Sea Surface Temperature Warming Investigation

• Main Author: Morizet, Grégoire
• Other Authors: Faculty of Science
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Plymouth 2005
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Pole; Larsen Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*; Sea ice; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10026.2/403

Antarctica is the continent of all extremes (highest, coldest, windiest, and iciest) which still nowadays present a lot of unknowns, 94 years after the first human intrusion lead by R. Amundsen until the South Pole. In situ data (e.g. Automatic Weather Stations: AWS) and satellites remote sensing ha...