Nov 29, 2015 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
The arrival of Argos in the late 1970’s coincided perfectly with an exciting shift of emphasis in ocean and meteorological research. Single discipline studies were being replaced with a multi-discipline approach aimed at describing the physical processes that...
Nov 28, 2015 | Land Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The polar bear is an iconic apex predator whose specialized adaptations for capturing seals from the surface of the sea ice has allowed them to flourish in the Arctic marine environment for at least 500,000 years. Polar bears occur only in northern hemisphere seas...
Nov 26, 2015 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
The Arctic is warming at a rate of almost twice the global average. Remote responses to the warmer Arctic on surrounding continents have been observed in the last decade and have become the focus of climate studies. Scientists observe that cold events and other...
Nov 24, 2015 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
The El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is Earth’s largest interannual climate signal, with an impact on weather, ecosystems, societies and economies. ENSO modulation is thus one of the hottest topics in tropical climate study. Since its beginnings, the...
Nov 22, 2015 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
In a world of increasingly variable climate, the Australian outback has long been known for its climatic extremes with its ‘droughts and flooding rains’. In this vast inland region of the Australian continent, rainfall is not only low – on average – but also highly...
Oct 26, 2015 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
www.Satellite-Telemetry.de is the website of the World Working Group on Birds of Prey (WWGBP) where some of the results of satellite telemetry studies are presented. Using Argos satellite tags, studies of 15 different bird of prey species have been conducted since...