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The International Polar Year 2007–2008 (IPY) was an intensive, internationally coordinated scientific research campaign in the Arctic and the Antarctic sponsored by the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Working together through international projects, IPY researchers examined all aspects of polar regions. IPY highlighted the global importance of polar processes and the urgent need to understand and track extremely rapid changes occurring at high latitudes.
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By most accounts, the 2007–2008 IPY represented the fourth IPY: 1882–1883, 1932–1933, 1957–1958 (that event grew from a Polar Year into a Geophysical Year – the IGY), and 2007–2008. Although topics and technologies have changed over 125 years, the challenges and difficulties of working in polar regions have not, and the most recent IPY still adheres strongly to the original concept that substantial advances in polar science require, periodically, extraordinary...
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Rapley C, Bell R, ICSU IPY 2007–2008 Planning Group (2004) A framework for the International Polar Year 2007–2008. ICSU, Paris
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Carlson, D.J. (2020). International Polar Year 2007–2008. In: Gupta, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10475-7_194-1
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