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The strength of IPY lies in its variety: extraordinarily diverse in disciplines as well as international representation. Some IPY projects operated on enormous budgets and required massive infrastructure, transport, and technological support. Others were relatively small in size but large in ambition. Please take some time to explore the IPY projects in the following pages: IPY Project Pages - search by name, discipline, or country IPY Charts by Country Below are a some IPY projects who are gathering media-friendly material in the lead-up to IPY celebrat...
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celebrating the launch of IPY at Sanae station, Antarctica
International Celebration
On February 25th, 2009, as the formal observational period of IPY draws to a close, the IPY Joint Committee will issue a report on the State of Polar Research. In conjunction with this release, IPY sponsors ICSU and WMO are pleased to announce an IPY Celebration, including a press conference and presentation, in Geneva, Switzerland. The State of Polar Research report will presen...
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celebrating the launch of IPY at Sanae station, Antarctica
International Celebration
On February 25th, 2009, as the formal observational period of IPY draws to a close, the IPY Joint Committee will issue a report on the State of Polar Research. In conjunction with this release, IPY sponsors ICSU and WMO are pleased to announce an IPY Celebration, including a press conference and presentation, in Geneva, Switzerland. The State of Polar Research report will presen...
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IPY IPO: Odd Rogne, Cynan Ellis-Evans, Rhian Salmon, Dave Carlson, Nicola Munro
The IPY International Programme Office (IPO) is collecting IPY images with the intention of creating an ' IPY memoir collection'. Please join in if you would like your photos included — they don't need to be of professional quality or of particular content, just images that reflect your experience of IPY. We are especially looking for images of IPY participants, whether at meetings, in the office or lab, or in the field.
Please choose a maximum of 15 images per contributor, and also supply metadata to put the images in context.
By supplying your images, you allow them to be freely accessible on the internet for download and wider use. We propose that the ...
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008 20:52
Above The Poles: Weather Observation Activity
Written by Rhian Salmon
This activity is also available in downloadable flyers in many languages
Each day, automated meteorological systems and human observers around the world produce and share weather data through a global network. Predictions centres use the observations to produce global, regional and local forecasts. The quality of these forecasts depends on accurate weather observations from polar regions.
image: Nicola Munro, Halley Research Station, Antarctica
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Images from Space, that we obtain from satellites, gives us a unique View of the Polar Regions,- and help us to learn a lot about processes happening on the Earth. In addition, satellite images are helping IPY researchers on the ground by providing images of the area they are working in, and even providing practical information like where the sea ice is in their area. This is one of many examples of IPY researchers colaborating across disciplines, in order to gain more knowledge overall, for everyone. Below is information about Satellite observations during IPY (GIIPSY), where to download amazing i...
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The Polar regions provide unique locations for observing layers of the upper atmosphere and outer space. This page provides an introduction to Polar Astronomy, and to some of the most wonderful places on the planet where people work, and what they do there. This stamp shown above, which was an IPY release by Australia Post, has a wealth of information about Polar Astronomy. The telescope is the SPIREX telescope at the South Pole and the image behind is of organic molecules in space - an infrared image that resulted from data taken by this telescope when at the Pole. Professor Michael Burton wrote a ...
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photo credit: Lars Poort, Greenland
An aurora is a wavering glow of light that is seen sometimes in the night sky in the direction of the North or South poles. The ones we see in the Northern Hemisphere are sometimes also called the northern lights.
An aurora is caused by very fast, charged particles—mostly electrons—that came from the Sun. Because of the earth’s magnetic field, these are partially deflected so that they come into our atmosphere toward the North and South poles. When nitrogen molecules of our air are hit by those fast particles, they become very excited molecules.
They become ordinary molecules again by giving off energy as light. That gives the faint wavering glow we call an aurora.
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Atmospheric Studies help us understand chemical and physical processes occurring above the Polar Regions. Meteorological studies help us understand how these processes interconnect with the rest of the planet, and polar observations are critical for our understanding of global weather patterns and climate. This page gives an overview of the Polar Atmosphere and Weather. NSF image: polar stratospheric clouds Polar Atmosphere The study of the atmosphere above the poles is crucial to our understanding of the climate and weather systems. The transport of pollutants from industrial...
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