The Norwegian-U.S. Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica is a research program consisting of two overland traverses of

East Antarctica East Antarctica, also called Greater Antarctica, constitutes the majority (two-thirds) of the Antarctic continent, lying on the Indian Ocean side of the continent, separated from West Antarctica by the Transantarctic Mountains. It lies almost ...

: the first from the Norwegian

Troll Station Troll is a Norwegian research station located at Jutulsessen, from the coast in the eastern part of Princess Martha Coast in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It is Norway's only all-year research station in Antarctica, and is supplemented by the s ...

to the South Pole in the 2007/2008 season; and a return traverse via a different route in 2008/2009. The main research focus of the program is climate change, the stated goals being to: *Investigate climate variability in Dronning Maud Land of East Antarctica on time scales of years to a thousand years. *Establish spatial and temporal variability in snow accumulation over this area of Antarctica to understand its impact on sea level. *Investigate the impact of atmospheric and oceanic variability on the chemical composition of firn and ice in the region. *Revisit areas and sites first explored by traverses in the 1960s, for detection of possible changes and to establish benchmark data sets for future research efforts. The program is part of Trans-Antarctic Scientific Traverse Expeditions – Ice Divide of East Antarctica (TASTE-IDEA), and the International Partners in Ice Coring Sciences (IPICS), both of which have

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WMO The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophysics. The WMO originated from the Internat ...

endorsement for the International Polar Year 2007-2009.

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