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• Recommendations
  ...ailable with which to investigate change – both in the past and over the next century, there are still major gaps in our knowledge and many areas wh ...limate change on geological time scales. In addition, scattered throughout the text there are many statements about additional research requirements.
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• Satellite observations of the Southern Ocean
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Observations, data accuracy and tools]]'' ...erometers, infra-red and microwave sensors for sea-surface temperature and ice extent and visible-wavelength radiometers for ocean colour. Ensuring their
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• Temperature changes in the instrumental period
  ...is page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change in the instrumental period]]'' ...a, including the ''in-situ'' observations, satellite infra-red imagery and ice core isotope measurements. In order to get a reasonable estimate of trends
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• Terrestrial biology over the next 100 years
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Biological responses to 21st climate climate change]]'' ...ent that have previously protected Antarctica. Antarctica contains some of the only places on Earth where natural biological phenomena can be studied in t
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• Terrestrial biota of the Antarctic
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Biota of the Antarctic]]'' ...d the ‘sub-Antarctic’ (those islands that lie in or around the Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone (PFZ).
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• The Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas in the instrumental period
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The Southern Ocean in the instrumental period]]'' ...0300-005-0058-5.</ref>). A comprehensive field study on Antarctic krill in the Amundsen Sea has yet to be conducted.
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• The Antarctic cryosphere
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The Antarctic environment in the global system]]'' ...2''', 641-673.</ref>) and bathymetry from the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) Centennial digital topography data (www.gebco.net).]]
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• The Antarctic marine ecosystem in the year 2100
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Biological responses to 21st climate climate change]]'' ...scale detail in predictions of change in the physical environment, e.g. of the likelihood and extent of extreme events, and of fine scale spatial resoluti
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• The Antarctic Peninsula cryosphere in the instrumental period
  :''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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• The Australian sector in the instrumental period
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The Southern Ocean in the instrumental period]]'' ...">Rintoul, S.R. 2007. Rapid freshening of Antarctic Bottom Water formed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, ''Geophys. Res. Lett.'', '''34''', L06606, doi:1
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• The climate of the Antarctic and its variability
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The Antarctic environment in the global system]]'' ...(dark) ocean, solar radiation will be absorbed rather than reflected, and the environment will warm.
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• The East Antarctic cryosphere in the instrumental period
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The ice sheet in the instrumental period]]'' ..., may have forestalled an anticipated increase in snowfall associated with the global trend.
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• The Greenhouse world - from the breakup of Gondwana to 34 million years ago
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Deep time]]'' ...ical Research'', '''99''', 15115-15139.</ref>). The shaded area represents the modelled error envelope.]]
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• The Holocene
  ...s page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment history in the pre-instrumental period]]'' ...ironmental change experienced in the major regions of Antarctica which are the result of both continental and local forcing mechanisms.
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• The Icehouse world - the last 34 million years
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Deep time]]'' ...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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• The ice sheet in the instrumental period
  ...is 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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• The IPCC fourth assessment report
  ...page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change over the next 100 years]]'' ...climate change resulting from increases in CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop.
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• The physical setting of Antarctica
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The Antarctic environment in the global system]]'' ...2''', 641-673.</ref>) and bathymetry from the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) Centennial digital topography data (www.gebco.net).]]
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• The transition to Holocene interglacial conditions
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The last million years]]'' ...d Wolff, E. 2007. Orbital and millenial Antarctic climate variability over the past 800,000 years, ''Science'', '''317''', 793-796.</ref>).
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• The Weddell Sea sector in the instrumental period
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The Southern Ocean in the instrumental period]]'' ...and involving ocean, atmosphere and cryosphere and a major contribution to the deep meridional overturning cell (Figure 1.9).
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• The West Antarctic cryosphere in the instrumental period
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The ice sheet in the instrumental period]]'' ...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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