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• Ocean change over the next 100 years
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change over the next 100 years]]'' ...rvations and between different models. In particular, the transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) through Drake Passage simulated by those models r
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• Ocean models of the Southern Ocean
  ...rt of the topic [[Models of the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic]]'' ...ace and near surface layers. Detailed studies of density currents, the sea ice field and other key regions provide further local checks on model performan
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• Pathways of research in cold-adapted organisms and climate change
  ...d Smith, R.C. 2007. Climate change and the marine ecosystem of the western Antarctic Peninsula, ''Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B'', '''362''', 149-166.</ref>). ...sses relevant to life on Earth. Key questions include: &ldquo;How well are Antarctic organisms able to cope with daily, seasonal and longer-term environmental c
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• Precipitation changes over the 21st century
  ...ount for resolving the uncertainty surrounding the future of the Antarctic ice sheet. ...snow hill is also associated with Byrd&rsquo;s former station on the Ross Ice Shelf).
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• Prospects for marine invasions by non-indigenous species
  ...ove &ndash; except in the case of large mammals from small islands. In the sea, though, there is not a single case of an invading NIS being successfully r ...wn S.L. 2007. Mytilus on the move: transport of an invasive bivalve to the Antarctic, ''Mar. Ecol Progr. Ser.'', '''339''', 307-310.</ref>) found that mussels (
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• Recommendations
  ...mospheric and oceanic circulation around Antarctica, and the volume of the ice sheets, interact and influence climate at a global scale. Although a great ...uplication. Other recommendations can be found in [[Future developments in Antarctic observation]], on specific observing system requirements, and in [[Concludi
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• Regional climate models
  ...rt of the topic [[Models of the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic]]'' ...rize processes that occur on a subgrid scale &ndash; like the scale of the Antarctic Peninsula. While the spatial resolution of GCMs will increase, their capabi
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• Regional patterns of holocene climate change in Antarctica
  ...d Evans, J. 2009. Mechanisms of Holocene palaeoenvironmental change in the Antarctic Peninsula region, ''The Holocene'', '''19''', 51-69.</ref>), the role of va ...story of the Antarctic Peninsula since the Last Glacial Maximum, Arctic, ''Antarctic and Alpine Research'', '''35''', 175-186.</ref>).
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• Ross Sea shelf waters in the instrumental period
  ...tal Shelf. In: Eds G. Spezie and G.M.R. Manzella, Oceanography of the Ross Sea Antarctica, Springer-Verlag Italia, Milano, 3-16.</ref>). ...nd S.S. Jacobs (1994) Temporal changes in shelf water of the southern Ross Sea, ''Antarct. J. of the U.S.'', '''29'''(5), 123-124.</ref>) noted that salin
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• Satellite observations of the Southern Ocean
  ...erometers, infra-red and microwave sensors for sea-surface temperature and ice extent and visible-wavelength radiometers for ocean colour. Ensuring their ==Sea Surface Temperature==
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• Sea ice biological and physical modeling
  ...rt of the topic [[Models of the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic]]'' ...arrison, 1991<ref name="Garrison, 1991">Garrison, D.L. 1991. Antarctic sea ice biota, ''Am. Zool.'', '''31''', 17-33.</ref>).
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• Sea ice change over the 21st century
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change over the next 100 years]]'' ...aluation of the simulation of the annual cycle of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice coverages by 11 major global climate models, J. Geophys. Res., 111, doi:10.
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• Sea ice ecosystems in the instrumental period
  ...only factor because the krill decline began before the retreat of the sea ice. [[Category:Antarctic biology]]
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• Sea ice observations
  ...1972">Mackintosh, N.A. 1972. Life cycle of Antarctic krill in relation to ice and water conditions, ''Discovery Reports'', '''36''', 1-94.</ref>). ...n many quarters and cannot be regarded as proof of a major decrease in sea ice extent between the 1940s and 1970s.
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• Sea ice over the last million years
  ...rosta, X., Sturm, A., Armand, L. and Pichon, J.J. 2004. Late Qaternary sea ice history in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean as record by diatom asse ==Sea ice extent==
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• Sea level observations
  ==Monitoring sea level== ...mentally hostile areas to the same standard as is possible elsewhere. Most sea level measurements during the 19^th and 20^th centuries
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• Small-scale processes in the Southern Ocean
  ...orison, J.H. and Nilsen, F. 2008. Revisiting heat and salt exchange at the ice-ocean interface: Ocean flux and modelling considerations, ''Journal of Geop ...Wolff, J.-O. 2004. The dynamical balance, transport and circulation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, ''Antarct. Sci.'', '''16''', 439-470.</ref>) for two r
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• Temperature changes in the instrumental period
  :''This 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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• Temperature changes over the 21st century
  ...irdle et al, 2008">Bracegirdle, T.J., Connolley, W.M. and Turner, J. 2008. Antarctic climate change over the Twenty First Century, Journal of Geophysical Resear ...irdle et al, 2008">Bracegirdle, T.J., Connolley, W.M. and Turner, J. 2008. Antarctic climate change over the Twenty First Century, Journal of Geophysical Resear
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• Terrestrial biological responses to climate change
  ...). Exceptions to this generalization are provided first by the continental Antarctic &lsquo;Dry Valleys&rsquo; of Victoria Land, providing several thousand squa ...ity as the LGM approached, leaving only continental taxa, and that the sub-Antarctic taxa have not yet returned to the lakes post LGM.
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• The Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas in the instrumental period
  ...-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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• The Antarctic cryosphere
  :''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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• The Antarctic marine ecosystem in the year 2100
  ...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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• 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
  ...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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• The climate of the Antarctic and its variability
  :''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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• The East Antarctic cryosphere in the instrumental period
  :''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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• The Greenhouse world - from the breakup of Gondwana to 34 million years ago
  ...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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• The Holocene
  :''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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• The Icehouse world - the last 34 million years
  ...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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• The ice sheet in the instrumental period
  :''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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• The impact of global climate change in polar marine environments
  ...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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• The IPCC fourth assessment report
  :''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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• The last million years
  :''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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• The open ocean system in the instrumental period
  ....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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• The physical setting of Antarctica
  :''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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• The role of the Antarctic in the global climate system
  :''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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• The Southern Ocean carbon cycle response to future climate change
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change over the next 100 years]]'' ...e PCO₂ and net CO₂ 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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• The Southern Ocean carbon cycle response to historical climate change
  :''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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• The Southern Ocean in the instrumental period
  :''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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• The transition to Holocene interglacial conditions
  ...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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• The Weddell Sea sector in the instrumental period
  ...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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• The West Antarctic cryosphere in the instrumental period
  :''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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• Understanding the seasonality of Antarctic benthic shelf communities
  ...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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