Polar Amplification in the Earth’s Three Poles Based on MODIS Land Surface Temperatures by Aihong Xie, Jiangping Zhu, Shimeng Wang, Xiang Qin

“…In the austral winter, the strong negative amplification concentrates on West Antarctica and the coast of East Antarctica, with an absolute value of amplification index higher than 5 in general. …”
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Comment on ‘Drought variability in the eastern Australia and New Zealand summer drought atlas (ANZDA, CE 1500–2012) modulated by the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation’ by Tessa R Vance, Jason L Roberts, Chris T Plummer, Anthony S Kiem, Tas D van Ommen

“…In their paper Palmer et al ( 2015 ) compared three publically available proxy records and reconstructions derived from the Law Dome ice core (East Antarctica) to their reconstructed scPDSI. These were the LD summer sea salt (LDsss) series, which is a proxy for Western Pacific sea surface temperature and subtropical eastern Australian rainfall (Vance et al 2013 J. …”
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A species distribution model of the Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis) by Volodymyr Tytar

“…Areas where the AMW have particularly high likelihood of occurrence are East Antarctica, NE of the Weddell Sea, areas around the northern tip of the Antarctica Peninsula, areas bordering the Scotia–Weddell Confluence. …”
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Geophysics in Antarctic Research: A Bibliometric Analysis by Yuanyuan Zhang, Changchun Zou, Cheng Peng, Xixi Lan, Hongjie Zhang

“…Many of the advances that they have enabled be seen in the Antarctic terrestrial areas (detailed mapping of the geological structures of West and East Antarctica), ice, and snow (tracking glaciers and sea ice, along with the depth and features of ice sheets). …”
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Recent weakening of the southern stratospheric polar vortex and its impact on the surface climate over Antarctica by Hataek Kwon, Hyesun Choi, Baek-Min Kim, Sang-Woo Kim, Seong-Joong Kim

“…Distinct positive surface air temperature anomalies over the rest of Antarctica are associated with the northerly circulation anomaly from the eastern Weddell Sea to east Antarctica.…”
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Impact of physical properties and accumulation rate on pore close-off in layered firn by S. A. Gregory, M. R. Albert, I. Baker

“…Density, permeability, and microstructure measurements were made on firn cores from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide, a site that has moderate accumulation rates with a seasonal climate archive, and Megadunes in East Antarctica, a site that is a natural laboratory for accumulation rate effects in the cold low-accumulation desert. …”
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Large ensemble of downscaled historical daily snowfall from an earth system model to 5.5 km resolution over Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica by N. Ghilain, S. Vannitsem, Q. Dalaiden, H. Goosse, L. De Cruz, L. De Cruz, W. Wei

“…<p>We explore a methodology to statistically downscale snowfall – the primary driver of surface mass balance in Antarctica – from an ensemble of historical (1850–present day) simulations performed with an earth system model over the coastal region of Dronning Maud Land (East Antarctica). This approach consists of associating daily snowfall simulations from a polar-oriented regional atmospheric climate model at 5.5 km spatial resolution with specific weather patterns observed over 1979–2010 CE with the atmospheric reanalyses ERA-Interim and ERA5. …”
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Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet 1992–2016: reconciling results from GRACE gravimetry with ICESat, ERS1/2 and Envisat altimetry by H. Jay Zwally, John W. Robbins, Scott B. Luthcke, Bryant D. Loomis, Frédérique Rémy

“…Modeled gravimetry corrections are 5.22 times altimetry corrections over East Antarctica (EA) and 4.51 times over West Antarctica (WA), with inferred mantle densities 4.75 and 4.11 g cm−3. …”
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Biosynthetic Potential of a Novel Antarctic Actinobacterium <i>Marisediminicola antarctica</i> ZS314^T Revealed by Genomic Data Mining and Pigment Characterization by Li Liao, Shiyuan Su, Bin Zhao, Chengqi Fan, Jin Zhang, Huirong Li, Bo Chen

“…<i>Marisediminicola antarctica</i> ZS314^T is the only type strain of the novel actinobacterial genus <i>Marisediminicola</i> isolated from intertidal sediments in East Antarctica. The strain ZS314^T was able to produce reddish orange pigments at low temperatures, showing characteristics of carotenoids. …”
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Field operation of explosion seismic experiment in Antarctica (second paper) by Kiyoshi Ito, Akira Ikami, Kazuo Shibuya, Katsutada Kaminuma, Shinichi Kataoka

“…Five experiments were made from May 1980 to January 1981 in the vicinity of Syowa Station and in Mizuho Plateau, East Antarctica. The outline of the experiments is reported with respect to the field operation and the preliminary results. …”
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How changing the height of the Antarctic ice sheet affects global climate: a mid-Pliocene case study by X. Huang, S. Yang, S. Yang, A. Haywood, J. Tindall, D. Jiang, D. Jiang, Y. Wang, M. Sun, M. Sun, S. Zhang, S. Zhang

“…As expected, the investigation reveals that the reduction of ice sheet height leads to a warmer and wetter East Antarctica. However, unintuitively, both the surface air temperature and the sea surface temperature decrease over the rest of the globe. …”
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Diagnoses of Antarctic Inland Water Cycle Regime: Perspectives From Atmospheric Water Vapor Isotope Observations Along the Transect From Zhongshan Station to Dome A by Jingfeng Liu, Jingfeng Liu, Zhiheng Du, Dongqi Zhang, Shimeng Wang

“…This study presents in situ real-time measurements of water vapor isotopes along the transect from Zhongshan Station to Dome Argus (hereafter Dome A) in East Antarctica for the first time. The results reveal that the surface vapor stable isotopes of δ18O and δ D showed a gradual decreasing trend in the interior plateau region with the distance away from the coast, with significant δ18O-temperature correlation gradient of 1.61‰°/C and δ18O-altitude gradient of –2.13‰/100 m. …”
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Quantifying Basal Roughness and Internal Layer Continuity Index of Ice Sheets by an Integrated Means with Radar Data and Deep Learning by Xueyuan Tang, Kun Luo, Sheng Dong, Zidong Zhang, Bo Sun

“…Using this method, we demonstrate the ice-penetrating radar data processing and compare the imaging and calculation of the radar profiles from Dome A to Zhongshan Station, East Antarctica. We removed the noise from the processed radar data, extracted ice layer continuity features, and used other techniques to verify the calculation. …”
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Two independent methods for mapping the grounding line of an outlet glacier – an example from the Astrolabe Glacier, Terre Adélie, Antarctica by E. Le Meur, M. Sacchettini, S. Garambois, E. Berthier, A. S. Drouet, G. Durand, D. Young, J. S. Greenbaum, J. W. Holt, D. D. Blankenship, E. Rignot, J. Mouginot, Y. Gim, D. Kirchner, B. de Fleurian, O. Gagliardini, F. Gillet-Chaulet

“…Here we map the grounding line of the Astrolabe Glacier in East Antarctica (66°41' S, 140°05' E), using both hydrostatic and tidal methods. …”
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Re-assessment of recent (2008–2013) surface mass balance over Dome Argus, Antarctica by Minghu Ding, Cunde Xiao, Yuande Yang, Yetang Wang, Chuanjin Li, Naiming Yuan, Guitao Shi, Weijun Sun, Jing Ming

“…At Dome Argus, East Antarctica, the surface mass balance (SMB) from 2008 to 2013 was evaluated using 49 stakes installed across a 30×30 km area. …”
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An inter-hemispheric, statistical study of nightside spectral width distributions from coherent HF scatter radars by E. E. Woodfield, E. E. Woodfield, E. E. Woodfield, K. Hosokawa, S. E. Milan, N. Sato, M. Lester

“…Data from the SuperDARN radars at Thykkvibær, Iceland and Syowa East, Antarctica have been employed for this purpose. …”
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Population structure of an Antarctic aquatic cyanobacterium by Pratibha Panwar, Timothy J. Williams, Michelle A. Allen, Ricardo Cavicchioli

“…Abstract Background Ace Lake is a marine-derived, stratified lake in the Vestfold Hills of East Antarctica with an upper oxic and lower anoxic zone. …”
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Detecting high spatial variability of ice shelf basal mass balance, Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, Antarctica by S. Berger, R. Drews, V. Helm, S. Sun, F. Pattyn

“…As a case study, we apply the methodology to the Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, and derive its yearly averaged BMB at 10 m horizontal gridding. …”
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Impact of ocean forcing on the Aurora Basin in the 21st and 22nd centuries by S. Sun, S. L. Cornford, D. E. Gwyther, R. M. Gladstone, B. K. Galton-Fenzi, L. Zhao, J. C. Moore

“…The grounded ice in the Totten and Dalton glaciers is an essential component of the buttressing for the marine-based Aurora basin, and hence their stability is important to the future rate of mass loss from East Antarctica. Totten and Vanderford glaciers are joined by a deep east-west running subglacial trench between the continental ice sheet and Law Dome, while a shallower trench links the Totten and Dalton glaciers. …”
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West-warming East-cooling trend over Antarctica reversed since early 21st century driven by large-scale circulation variation by Meijiao Xin, Kyle R Clem, John Turner, Sharon E Stammerjohn, Jiang Zhu, Wenju Cai, Xichen Li

“…In contrast, surface warming and glacier mass loss around East Antarctica are not significant, until the decades since 2000 when several individual stations show that the temperature trends might have reversed. …”
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