[HTML][HTML] A plastic world: A review of microplastic pollution in the freshwaters of the Earth's poles

F Citterich, AL Giudice, M Azzaro - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastic (MP) pollution is of great environmental concern. MPs have been found all over
the Earth, including in the poles, which is indicative for the important threat they constitute …

First evidence of microplastics in Antarctic snow

AR Aves, LE Revell, S Gaw, H Ruffell… - The …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
In recent years, airborne microplastics have been identified in a range of remote
environments. However, data throughout the Southern Hemisphere, in particular Antarctica …

[HTML][HTML] AWARE: The atmospheric radiation measurement (ARM) west Antarctic radiation experiment

D Lubin, D Zhang, I Silber, RC Scott… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
AWARE: The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) West Antarctic Radiation
Experiment in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 101 Issue 7 (2020) …

Antarctic clouds, supercooled liquid water and mixed phase, investigated with DARDAR: geographical and seasonal variations

C Listowski, J Delanoë, A Kirchgaessner… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
Antarctic tropospheric clouds are investigated using the DARDAR (raDAR/liDAR)-MASK
products between 60 and 82∘ S. The cloud fraction (occurrence frequency) is divided into …

Evaluation of Southern Ocean cloud in the HadGEM3 general circulation model and MERRA-2 reanalysis using ship-based observations

P Kuma, AJ McDonald, O Morgenstern… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Southern Ocean (SO) shortwave (SW) radiation biases are a common problem in
contemporary general circulation models (GCMs), with most models exhibiting a tendency to …

Comparing satellite‐and ground‐based observations of cloud occurrence over high southern latitudes

C McErlich, A McDonald… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2B‐CLDCLASS‐LIDAR R05 (2BCL5) and the raDAR/liDAR (DARDAR)
satellite retrievals of cloud occurrence are compared as a function of altitude and latitude …

Antarctic cloud macrophysical, thermodynamic phase, and atmospheric inversion coupling properties at McMurdo Station—Part II: Radiative impact during different …

I Silber, J Verlinde, M Cadeddu… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Different cloud types are generated over Antarctica as a result of various synoptic conditions.
The cloud characteristics affect their impact on the surface energy budget. In this study, the …

Impact of clouds and blowing snow on surface and atmospheric boundary layer properties over Dome C, Antarctica

M Ganeshan, Y Yang, SP Palm - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Clouds and blowing snow (BLSN) occur frequently over Antarctica, where it is critical to
understand their feedbacks to surface and atmospheric boundary layer processes. Dome C …

Seasonal change in satellite‐retrieved lower‐tropospheric ice‐cloud fraction over the Southern Ocean

K Sato, J Inoue - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigated the temperature and fraction of lower‐tropospheric ice cloud over
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean (SO) using Cloud‐Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder …

A new method to evaluate reanalyses using synoptic patterns: An example application in the Ross Sea/Ross Ice Shelf Region

AJ McDonald, LH Cairns - Earth and Space Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We compare the consistency between eight reanalyses: CERA20C, ERA5, ERA‐Interim,
ERA20C, NCEP‐DOE, MERRA2, JRA55, and 20CRV2c. This comparison uses daily surface …