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Field tests of a very high sensitivity spectrometer for polar auroras studies
The ATISE experiment is a spectrometer destinated to the observation of aurorae. This is an ultra-sensitive spectrometer, allowing to obtain […]
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The transition from marine to continental ice-fronts at retreating ice-sheet margins: lessons from the sedimentary archives of ice-front stabilizations
During a deglaciation, what happens formally at the time of the transition between marine ice fronts and terrestrial ice fronts? […]
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Firn air pumping campaigns for improving deep ice core dating constraints (ICORDA project) and identifying signature of past katabatic wind activity in noble gases trapped in ice cores (KATABATIC project)
The study envisaged is the field mission associated with three funded projects (ANR JCJC KATABATIC, PI A. Orsi ; ERC […]
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Alpine glacier fluctuations in southern Greenland during the Holocene
There are about 18,500 alpine mountain glaciers independent of the Greenland Ice sheet (GrIs). These glaciers, highly sensitive to climate […]
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Supercooled Liquid Water Clouds
During the international YOPP campaign (2018-2019), remote-sensed observations of Supercooled Liquid Water (SLW, the water staying in liquid phase below […]
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Installation and operation of a UV index and cloud cover measuring station in Kerguelen
The UV-KER project proposed here consists in installing a total sky imager at the Kerguelen station to measure the atmospheric […]
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Study of Ny-Ålesund plankton community responses to brownification by using high frequency data of autonomous sensors and by conventional measurements during an in situ mesocosm experiment
The release of terrigenous organic carbon to the Arctic Ocean, due to the reduction of the permafrost and the consequent […]
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Ethnography of a Scientific Base in Antarctica
The project focuses on the processes of structuring social life and on the constitution of a specific culture, that of […]
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A study of cognitive coping mechanisms while wintering in winterers in the French Australs and Antarctic Territories
The objective of this study is to investigate the coping mechanisms of cognitive functions in winterers during wintering in the […]
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Participation of IAOOS in MOSAIC
Autonomous, integrated atmosphere-ice-ocean buoy systems (IT buoys) have been developed within the IAOOS program to provide year-round ocean-ice-atmosphere integrated observations over the […]
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Microphysical Process Characterization of Mixed Phase Clouds in the European Arctic
The Arctic is warming at twice the global mean rate and shows acute visible signs such as the retreat of […]
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Hyper-abundant arctic-nesting geese and the decline of Canadian arctic-nesting shorebirds, an empirical test
Arctic ecosystems are far removed from the direct effects of the soaring human population because they are remote and sparsely […]
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