Predicting water availability in the Antarctic dry valleys using GIS and remote sensing

Water is one of the most important ingredients for life on Earth. The presence or absence of biologically available water determines whether or not life will exist. In Antarctica most water exists as ice and is not available for sustaining life. It is usually only during December and January that te...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stichbury, Glen, Brabyn, Lars
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of New South Wales 2009
Subjects:
Antarctica
water
Geographic Information Systems
GIS
remote sensing
dry valleys
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10289/4266
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Summary:Water is one of the most important ingredients for life on Earth. The presence or absence of biologically available water determines whether or not life will exist. In Antarctica most water exists as ice and is not available for sustaining life. It is usually only during December and January that temperatures will rise above zero and melt water becomes available (Kennedy, 1993). For this reason Antarctica is regarded as the driest desert in the world (Peck et al., 2006, McKnight et al., 1999).

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