Insignificant buffering capacity of Antarctic shelf carbonates

Insignificant change in Antarctic snowfall since the International Geophysical Year.

Antarctic snowfall exhibits substantial variability over a range of time scales, with consequent impacts on global sea level and the mass balance of the ice sheets. To assess how snowfall has affected the thickness of the ice sheets in Antarctica and to provide an extended perspective, we derived a 50-year time series of snowfall accumulation over the continent by combining model simulations an...

Algal Clues to Antarctic Ice Shelf Ages

1111 Algal Clues to Antarctic Ice Shelf Ages The naturally high variability of sea ice extent in Antarctica and the short duration of instrumental records have combined to obscure any clear record of sea ice coverage change. Curran et al. (p. 1203; see the Perspective by Wolff) present an ice core record of methanesulfonic acid, a species produced by algae living at the edges of ice shelves, wh...

Ice shelf changes on the Antarctic Peninsula

The buffering capacity of porcine muscles.

The aim of this study was to investigate the buffering capacity (BC) of five porcine muscles. The pH of muscles with zero lactate was also estimated. The BC was calculated on the basis of the amount of lactate accumulating in the muscle between two sampling times and the simultaneous pH decline. Two muscle samples were obtained from each muscle (n=13-36): one as soon as possible after slaughter...

Present stability of the Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

We modelled the flow of the Larsen C and northernmost Larsen D ice shelves, Antarctic Peninsula, using a model of continuum mechanics of ice flow, and applied a fracture criterion to the simulated velocities to investigate the ice shelf’s present-day stability. Constraints come from satellite data and geophysical measurements from the 2008/09 austral summer. Ice-shelf thickness was derived from...