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  • ...-5.</ref>). A comprehensive field study on Antarctic krill in the Amundsen Sea has yet to be conducted. ..., Jacobs, S.S., Larter, R.D. and Gohl, K. 2007. Bathymetry of the Amundsen Sea continental shelf: Implications for geology, oceanography, and glaciology,
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[The Antarctic environment in the global system]]'' ...meridional extent and fronts of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, ''Deep-Sea Res.'', '''42''', 641-673.</ref>) and bathymetry from the General Bathymetr
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  • ...arnes and Peck, 2008">Barnes, D.K.A. and Peck, L.S. 2008. Vulnerability of Antarctic shelf biodiversity to predicted climate change, ''Climate Research'', '''37 ...und the Antarctic Peninsula and at the sea ice margin as well as along the Antarctic Convergence (Polar Front) are the main foci of ecological climate research.
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[The ice sheet in the instrumental period]]'' ...tic Peninsula and their implications for ice-sheet mass balance, Arctic, ''Antarctic and Alpine Research'', '''38''', 147-152.</ref>).
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  • ...oul (2007<ref name="Rintoul, 2007">Rintoul, S.R. 2007. Rapid freshening of Antarctic Bottom Water formed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, ''Geophys. Res. Lett. ...rtney, M.S. and Donohue, K.A. 2007. A deep cyclonic gyre in the Australian-Antarctic Basin, ''Progress in Oceanography'', '''75''', 675-750.</ref>).
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[The Antarctic environment in the global system]]'' ...osing large patches of bare (dark) ground, or where sea ice melts exposing ice free (dark) ocean, solar radiation will be absorbed rather than reflected,
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[The ice sheet in the instrumental period]]'' ...06a">Monaghan, A.J., Bromwich, D.H. and Wang, S-H. 2006a. Recent trends in Antarctic snow accumulation from Polar MM5, ''Philosophical Trans. Royal. Soc. A'', '
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  • ...ne in a Changing World. Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 19-27.</ref>) ...ertiary times has been found on Seymour Island and Alexander Island in the Antarctic Peninsula. This demonstrates that, despite its polar position, Antarctica h
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment history in the pre-instrumental period]]'' ...es on regional to hemispheric timescales. Second we examine changes in sea ice extent through the Holocene and how these have interacted with changing cli
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  • ...G.H., Lyons, W.B., Maasch, K.A., Aoki, S., and Xiao, C. 2009. State of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Climate System (SASOCS), ''Reviews of Geophysics'', '''4 ...G.H., Lyons, W.B., Maasch, K.A., Aoki, S., and Xiao, C. 2009. State of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Climate System (SASOCS), ''Reviews of Geophysics'', '''4
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change in the instrumental period]]'' ...he spatial pattern of ice accumulation (snowfall and frost deposition) and ice ablation (melting, wind erosion and calving).
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  • ...ed, but legal and illegal fishing continues, especially for Patagonian and Antarctic Toothfish as well as for krill. ...e much more evident in the Arctic than in the Antarctic except west of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change over the next 100 years]]'' ...ccess of efforts to reduce the rate of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Antarctic is a long way from the main centres of population, but greenhouse gases are
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment history in the pre-instrumental period]]'' ...f ice on global sea level. Finally we review the influence of changing sea ice distributions on climate.
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  • ....J., Tarling, G.A. and Fleming, A.H. 2008. Oceanic circumpolar habitats of Antarctic krill, ''Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser'', '''362''', 1-23.</ref>, &copy; Atkinson et ...and its wider linkages: insights revealed from models and observations, ''Antarctic Science'', '''16''', 387-400.</ref>).
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[The Antarctic environment in the global system]]'' ...meridional extent and fronts of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, ''Deep-Sea Res.'', '''42''', 641-673.</ref>) and bathymetry from the General Bathymetr
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[The Antarctic environment in the global system]]'' ...s of the heat exchange engine and the interactions of ice shelves and land ice with the ocean and atmosphere make predictions about climate change a chall
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change over the next 100 years]]'' ...e PCO<sub>2</sub> and net CO<sub>2</sub> flux over the global oceans, Deep Sea Research, doi:10.1016/dsr2.2008.12.009.</ref>). Clearly then the way in whi
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change in the instrumental period]]'' ..."Rintoul et al, 2001">Rintoul, S.R., Hughes, C.W. and Olbers, D. 2001. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current system. In: Eds. G. Siedler, J. Church and J. Gould, Oc
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change in the instrumental period]]'' ...oss Seas giving rise to subpolar gyres (Figure 1.10), the distributions of ice shelves, the zonal structure of the forcing (storm tracks) and finally the
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  • ...i, B.S., Tison, J.L., Werner, M. and Wolff, E. 2007. Orbital and millenial Antarctic climate variability over the past 800,000 years, ''Science'', '''317''', 79 ...glaciation). Since the pioneer works of the 1960s, Greenland and Antarctic ice core records have been used to determine the magnitude of climatic and envi
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  • ...arctic continent, and transports colder, fresher waters northward (Weddell Sea Deep and Bottom Waters, WSDW and WSBW, as well as surface waters). The tran ...ses into the formation areas and the newly formed water masses leaving the Antarctic Systems into the world oceans. However, since these transport differences a
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[The ice sheet in the instrumental period]]'' ...ars ago and the concern driving much of the research of the West Antarctic ice sheet was whether such an eventuality was inevitable or even underway.
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  • ...n a metre thick, which is why most of the large predators abandon the high Antarctic at the start of the long austral winter. ...r as a consequence of reduced food availability, despite the fact that the sea water temperature remained practically constant all year round.
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