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    Leah Adlam completed her Bachelors of Science doing Earth and Ocean Science before moving on to her Master of Science. Her focus1 is on weather2 and climate3. She will be looking at the data4 from the climate stations positioned in the Ross sea region.

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    LEAH ADLAM
    I did my Bachelor of Science doing Earth and Ocean sciences here and I kept it pretty broad. I did some of the soil sciences, the oceanography, the hydrology5 courses. The Master of Science is also in Earth and Ocean Sciences, but my focus is primarily on the weather and climate and meteorological side of things. So I’ll be looking at the soil climate stations that have been established in the Ross Sea region, in Antarctic. So there are seven of those and they’ve got about eight years worth of data. So I’ll be looking at that data to see if we can find any trends between parameters6 like solar radiation7 and soil temperature8 and soil moisture - that sort of thing and seeing if there’s any variation over time, if there is any variation over altitude9 and variation over latitude10.

    1. focus: The point on a fault where the first break happens, and where the seismic waves radiate out from.
    2. weather: Daily or short-term conditions like temperature, cloud cover, precipitation and wind affecting a certain area.
    3. climate: The weather conditions of an area averaged over a series of years, usually 30 or more.
    4. data: The unprocessed information we analyse to gain knowledge.
    5. hydrology: The study of movement, distribution or quality of water throughout the Earth’s systems.
    6. parameters: Limits of measurement.
    7. solar radiation: Radiant energy emitted by the Sun as a result of nuclear fusion reactions.
    8. temperature: A measure of the degree of hotness or coldness of an object or substance. Temperature is measured with a thermometer calibrated in one or more temperature scales. Kelvin scale temperature is a measure of the average energy of the molecules of a body.
    9. altitude: 1. The height of something, usually height above sea level. 2. In astronomy, the angular distance of a natural or artificial satellite above the horizon.
    10. latitude: A geographic co-ordinate that specifies the north-south position of a point on the Earth’s surface. Lines of constant latitude (or parallels) run east-west as circles parallel to the equator. Latitude is used with longitude to specify the precise location of features on the surface of the Earth.
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    2. The point on a fault where the first break happens, and where the seismic waves radiate out from.

      data

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    4. The unprocessed information we analyse to gain knowledge.

      solar radiation

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    6. Radiant energy emitted by the Sun as a result of nuclear fusion reactions.

      latitude

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    8. A geographic co-ordinate that specifies the north-south position of a point on the Earth’s surface. Lines of constant latitude (or parallels) run east-west as circles parallel to the equator. Latitude is used with longitude to specify the precise location of features on the surface of the Earth.

      weather

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    10. Daily or short-term conditions like temperature, cloud cover, precipitation and wind affecting a certain area.

      hydrology

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    12. The study of movement, distribution or quality of water throughout the Earth’s systems.

      temperature

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    14. A measure of the degree of hotness or coldness of an object or substance. Temperature is measured with a thermometer calibrated in one or more temperature scales. Kelvin scale temperature is a measure of the average energy of the molecules of a body.

      climate

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    16. The weather conditions of an area averaged over a series of years, usually 30 or more.

      parameters

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    18. Limits of measurement.

      altitude

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    20. 1. The height of something, usually height above sea level. 2. In astronomy, the angular distance of a natural or artificial satellite above the horizon.