We report an undocumented major warming of the Antarctic winter troposphere that is larger than any previously identified regional tropospheric warming on Earth. This result has come to light through an analysis of recently digitized and rigorously quality controlled Antarctic radiosonde observations. The data show that regional midtropospheric temperatures have increased at a statistically sig...

Doctoral graduate attributes are the qualities, skills, and competencies that graduates possess, having completed their doctorate degree. Graduate attributes, in general, lack conceptual clarity, making investigation into quality assurance processes attached to doctoral outcomes challenging. As many “unseen” or implicit, full range of actually possess needs be synthesized, so they may recognize...

The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide PhD students with an environment in which they can share and discuss their goals, methods and results before completing their research. Participants will be selected based on the quality of the proposed research, its potential significance and contribution to the OSS domain, and the potential benefit of the Doctoral Consortium to the PhD student...

............................................................................................................ xxi Chapter One. Introduction ................................................................................ 1 1.1 BACKGROUND ...................................................................................................1 1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THIS DOCTORAL RESEARCH.............