How wandering albatrosses use weather systems to fly long distances. 3. The contributions of Antarctic lows to eastward, southward and northward flight / M.D. Murray, D.G. Nicholls, E. Butcher, P.J. Moors, Kath J. Walker, Graeme P. Elliott.

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245 00 ‡aHow wandering albatrosses use weather systems to fly long distances. 3. The contributions of Antarctic lows to eastward, southward and northward flight /‡cM.D. Murray, D.G. Nicholls, E. Butcher, P.J. Moors, Kath J. Walker, Graeme P. Elliott.
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300 ## ‡ap. 111-120 :‡bdiags.
500 ## ‡aEmu. Vol. 103(2) :111-120 (2003).
520 3# ‡aAnalyses eastward, southward and northward flights of Diomedea exulans across Indian, Southern and Pacific Oceans, and describes their associations with common features of Southern Ocean weather systems. When flying directly southwards, birds used N-NW winds ahead of cold fronts associated with lows, returning northwards in S-SW winds behind fronts. Eastward flight was in SW winds between low and following high, and in NW winds. In westerly winds, flight was north-east or south-east, zigzagging across the ocean. Most flights were in weather systems with dominant low component. Extensive stationary highs over Pacific sector of Southern Ocean can bring accelerating winds at interface with circulating lows to south, facilitating very rapid eastward transoceanic flights, one bird having flown 1,730 km in 1.5 days.
650 07 ‡a598.2 -- Birds.‡2udc
650 07 ‡a598.421.2 -- Diomedeidae: Diomedea exulans.‡2udc
650 07 ‡a591.174 -- Flight.‡2udc
650 07 ‡a591.5 -- Animal behaviour.‡2udc
650 07 ‡a551.5 -- Meteorology.‡2udc
650 07 ‡a551.55 -- Wind and air turbulence.‡2udc
650 07 ‡a551.556 -- Wind, effects of.‡2udc
650 07 ‡a551.515.1 -- Polar lows and extratropical cyclones.‡2udc
650 07 ‡aH5 -- Zoology: birds.‡2local
651 #7 ‡a(*7) -- Antarctic regions.‡2udc
651 #7 ‡a(*80) -- Southern Ocean.‡2udc
651 #7 ‡a(*84) -- South Indian Ocean.‡2udc
651 #7 ‡a(*86) -- Southern Ocean, Australian sector.‡2udc
651 #7 ‡a(*88) -- South Pacific Ocean.‡2udc
700 1# ‡aMurray, M. D.
700 1# ‡aNicholls, D. G.
700 1# ‡aButcher, E.
700 1# ‡aMoors, P. J.
700 1# ‡aWalker, Kath J.
700 1# ‡aElliott, Graeme P.
773 0# ‡7nnas ‡tEmu. ‡gVol. 103(2) (2003) ‡wSPRI-44110
917 ## ‡aUnenhanced record from Muscat, imported 2019
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