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Current Antarctic
Literature highlights
Current Antarctic
Literature, regarded as the world's most comprehensive antarctic abstracting
and indexing service, is the monthly awareness service of the Antarctic
Bibliography. As of 1 January 1997, it is no longer available as a printed
publication. The complete Antarctic Bibliography file, which extends
back to 1951, will be available for online searching on the Library of Congress
Project World Wide Web site in 1997.
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| November
highlights |
| Excavations at Cape Shirreff revealed the remains
of a female skull c. 170 y. old, indicating a mongolian-caucasian origin |
A-58045 |
| Antarctic phytoplankton may respond differentially
and significantly to changes of iron level in the southern ocean |
B-57906 |
| King penguins breeding at Crozet Is. forage towards
the Subantarctic Front, but most travel south towards the Polar Front |
B-57948 |
| Highest concentrations of the UV-B absorber usnic
acid in antarctic lichens occur at the lowest ozone levels |
B-58047 |
| The UV irradiation is responsible for the
accumulation of age pigments in irradiated fungal spores |
B-58070 |
| The most intensive antarctic tafoni weathering
occurs along the coastal zone reached by sea spray and on top of Mt. Abbott |
E-57969 |
| A paragenesis on Mt. Meredith yielded 25002800
million years and 18002100 million years detrital zircon populations |
E-57985 |
| Radiocarbon dating and other, independent, dating
methods must be employed together to reconstruct deglaciation history |
E-58067 |
| Modelling methods using computational fluid dynamics
and a finite area element model, predict snowdrift accumulation patterns |
F-57992 |
| The atmospheric convergence line and the Antarctic
Divergence region cause polynya activity in the southern Indian Ocean |
F-58025 |
| Recent contrasts in the behavior of the alpine
glaciers may reflect changes in summer sea ice extent in Prydz Bay |
F-58065 |
| Data indicate that the area of the Filchner-Ronne
Ice Shelf is about 1700 sq. km larger than was previously thought |
F-58073 |
| Tropospheric trace gas column abundances are
up to 10 times higher in the Arctic compared with the Antarctic |
I-57940 |
| Only a small fraction of the aerosol particles
were involved in the nucleation of PSC particles in 1992 and 1993 |
I-57943 |
| Midwinter tropospheric wave energy may be the
best predictor of the severity of the ozone hole the following spring |
I-57963 |
| A reduction of NO2 by 30% was found
after the breakup of the austral polar vortex in 1992 |
I-58020 |
| The current deglaciation, beginning at the end
of the Little Ice Age, is the most important since the Holocene period |
I-58078 |
| 4251 articles weighing 65.8 kg of mostly plastic
material were found in the marine debris at Cape Shirreff in 199596 |
J-58049 |
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