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Concentrations of major, minor and trace elements in particulate matter (PM10) samples, collected at Concordia with monthly time resolution, since January 2018, obtained by PIXE-PIGE and HR-ICP-MS measurements.
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Isotopic composition (Pb and Sr) in particulate matter (PM10) samples, collected at Concordia with monthly time resolution, since January 2018, obtained by ICP-MS.
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The observatory created within the project AMICO records microenvironmental parametrs in rocks and soils of 4 localities in Northern Victorial Land: Battleship Promontory, Richard Nunatak, Trio Nunatak, Mount Bowen. The observatory records in each locality moisture, solar radiation, PAR, wind speed, wind direction, gist speed, and rock, soil and air temperature. Data are collected every two hours and are trasmitted remotely daily. On the website it is possible to navigate and visualize the data.
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The only borehole equipped the international standard and within the network managed by the PNRA OSS-12 is located very close to MZS named OASI. The site (-74.74167;164.1;52 m slm) is a flat granitic outcrop. The borehole was drilled with compressed and refrigerated air in the austral summer of 2007 and equipped in 2008. The borehole is 31 m deep and the ZAA is ca 26m and there are 20 thermistors at different depths. Here, only the temperature closest at ZAA depth has been reported.
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In the Project PermVegNet (OSS-12) there are 14 sites between 73 and 78°S in which shallow boreholes of 1 m of depth are equipped with 4 thermistors (accuracy 0.2°C) placed at 2, 30,60, 100 or the maximum depth reachable close to 100 cm) to monitor the thermal regime of the active layer and to obtain one of the essential climatic variables (ECV) the active layer thickness that is the maximum depth of the annual 0°C isotherm. Here are added also other two deeper boreholes (Oasi A8 (31 m); Boulder Clay (3.6 m), where ALT is also determinable. In the same sites also a the air temperature, the soil moisture at 2 cm of depth in the ground and the PAR or PIR are measured to establish their relations to the ground thermal regime.
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The RESTORE project is dedicated to the development of portable robotic technologies with the capability to perform multi-disciplinary multi-parametric 3-D monitoring of marine environment. Its primary focus lies in examining critical areas such as the air-sea-ice and water-sediment interfaces in Antarctica. This endeavour aims to support various research aspects, including the study of microbial ecology and DNA tracing, as well as the investigation of Antarctic geology, particularly the dynamics surrounding glaciers and ice-covered coastal regions. Furthermore, RESTORE is committed to scrutinising the impacts of climate change on the Antarctic atmosphere and the exchanges that occur between the sea and air. The comprehensive dataset collected during RESTORE will provide researchers with a holistic perspective on an extreme and remote environment such as Antarctica, facilitating the interpretation of atmospheric and oceanic dynamics at the interface zones and, the 3D mapping of the underwater environment and the physical characterisation of the sampled region.