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  • File:Figure 4.4 - El Nino and La Nina SST anomaly composites and schematic effects.png
    ...impacts on Antarctic sea ice: a synthesis of phenomenon and mechanisms, ''Antarctic Science'', '''16'''(4), 415-425.</ref>).
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  • File:Figure 4.25 - Amundsen Sea bathymetric chart and hydrographic stations of different cruises.png
    ..., 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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  • File:Figure 5.2 - Temperature trends for 1960-2000 for winter (JJA).png
    ...lley and Bracegirdle, 2007">Connolley, W.M. and Bracegirdle, T.J. 2007. An Antarctic assessment of IPCC AR4 coupled models, ''Geophys. Res. Lett.'', '''34''', L
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  • File:Figure 3.10 - Accurately dated Antarctic ice-core records and the comparison with sea level proxies.png
    ...sy, J.C., McManus, J.F., Lambeck, K., Balbon, E. and Labracherie, M. 2002. Sea level and deep water temperature changes derived from bentic foraminifera i
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  • File:Figure 5.19 - Projected sea-level rise for the Twenty First Century.png
    ...tional contribution from a dynamic response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to global warming. The inset shows the 2001 projection compared with
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  • File:Figure 3.20 - Signals of climate change in ice core records from Siple Dome and Law Dome.png
    ...in atmospheric CO2 over the last 1000 years from air in Antarctic firn and ice, ''J. Geophys. Res.'', '''101''', 4115-4128.</ref>). Darkened area shows th
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  • File:Figure 3.8 - Lithological column for the upper 600m of the AND-1B drillcore.png
    ..., Wilch, T. and Williams, T. 2009. Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations, ''Nature'', '''458''', 322-328.</ref>).
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  • File:Figure 4.41 - Pictorial view of the ocean-ice system of the Ross Sea.png
    ...ere (wavy vertical line) while the remainder circulated under the floating ice shelf causing basal melting. (illustration courtesy of National Geographic)
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  • File:Figure 2.38 - Schematic of incorporation of biological material into Antarctic pack ice.png
    ...em, A.L. 2002. Modeling physical and biological processes in Antarctic sea ice. Ph.D. thesis, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Brem
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  • File:Figure 5.31 - Benthic diversity on the Antarctic shelf predicted for a range of disturbance rates.png
    ...., Johst, K. and Gutt, J. 2006. How to survive as a pioneer species in the Antarctic benthos: minimum dispersal distance as a function of lifetime and disturban
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  • File:Figure 4.5 - Schematic summary of interannual variations in SST, sea level pressure and sea ice extent.png
    ...Antarctic Circumpolar Wave in surface pressure, wind, temperature, and sea ice extent, ''Nature'', '''380''', 699-702.</ref>).
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  • File:Figure 3.21 - Reconstructed temperatures and ice core reconstructed atmospheric circulation systems.png
    ...ere chosen because they are the highest resolution Antarctic and Greenland ice core data of their kind available. Figure taken from Mayewski and Maasch (2
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  • File:Figure 4.26 - Cross-section showing warm water penetrating the Pine Island Bay sub-ice shelf cavity.png
    .... Res. Ser.'', '''75''', 83-99.</ref>). The solid black area indicates the sea bed.
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  • File:Figure 2.33 - Bed elevations of the Amundsen Sea Embayment.png
    ...below sea level, with deeper blue signifying greater depths. The Amundsen Sea is in the lower left corner. Comparison shows that the recent surveys provi
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  • File:Figure 3.19a - Antarctic and Greenland holocene climate change compared using ice core data.png
    ...n, E.D. 1999. Past and future grounding-line retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Science 286:280-283.</ref>). Figure modified from Mayewski et al. (2
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  • File:Figure 2.19 - Envisat ASAR image showing sea ice around Adelaide Island, West Antarctic Peninsula.png
    Envisat ASAR image showing sea ice around Adelaide Island, West Antarctic Peninsula
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  • File:Figure 3.14 - Climate and environmental records of Termination I.png
    ...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
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  • File:Figure 3.17 - Sea ice distribution at the Southern Ocean EPILOG-LGM time slice.png
    ...ribution of the Southern Ocean at the EPILOG Last Glacial Maximum-a circum-Antarctic view based on siliceous microfossil records, ''Quaternary Science Reviews''
    (552 × 520 (145 KB)) - 15:31, 6 August 2014
  • File:Figure 3.7 - View of the Victoria Land coast off Cape Roberts during Oligocene and early Miocene times.png
    ...white filled circle. TAM = Transantarctic Mountains, EAIS = East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change over the next 100 years]]'' ...lly by melting of land-based sources of ice (glaciers and ice caps and the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica). The amount of thermal expansion is non
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  • ...orological conditions across the Southern Ocean, ocean conditions, the sea ice extent and the terrestrial and marine biology. ...this really began the period of organised scientific investigation in the Antarctic. Most of these stations were not operated for long periods, which is a hand
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  • ...t for both scientists and policymakers concerned with issues as diverse as sea-level rise and fish stocks. A major problem is that we still have a poor un ...ojections for temperature and precipitation were used to estimate how much sea level would rise under various greenhouse gas emission scenarios. In the fo
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  • ...and its effects on global sea level, and the changing distribution of sea ice and its effect on climate are then described. ...nt interglacial, the Holocene is described in detail from a combination of ice cores, marine sediments, lake sediments and terrestrial records with a focu
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  • ...as changed from Deep Time until the present day. It also considers how the Antarctic environment may change over the next century in a world where greenhouse ga ...fic Committee on Antarctic Research ([http://www.scar.org/ SCAR]) known as Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment (ACCE), which is described in [[About AC
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  • ...at the LGM from ice-dynamic reconstructions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets during the glacial cycles, ''Quaternary Science Reviews'', '''21''', ...ce the eustatic contribution and so there is a continuous fall in relative sea level like that seen in areas such as Hudson Bay or Sweden today.
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change in the instrumental period]]'' ...1970s microwave instruments on polar orbiting satellites have enabled sea ice observations to be made year-round and even during periods of complete clou
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  • ==Antarctic stratospheric ozone over the next 100 years== ...averaged over some period, and it is the most accurate diagnostic of total Antarctic ozone loss.</li>
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change in the instrumental period]]'' ==Antarctic stratospheric ozone in the instrumental period==
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change in the instrumental period]]'' ...08. Here the SAM is in its positive phase with negative anomalies over the Antarctic and positive anomalies over the Southern Ocean.]]
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  • ...ulation in the warming of the Antarctic Peninsula, the distribution of sea ice, and the seasonal to interannual variability of the Southern Hemisphere. ...y, analyses of sea level pressure have revealed secular decreases over the Antarctic, associated with increases in mid-latitude westerlies, a poleward displacem
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[The ice sheet in the instrumental period]]'' ...such as recent/anthropogenic climate change. The inescapable fact is that ice sheet behaviour manifests itself as the superposition of multiple responses
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  • ...rt of the topic [[Models of the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic]]'' ...y production, and are either supported or reduced by the occurrence of sea ice (Beaman and Harris, 2005<ref name="Beaman and Harris, 2005">Beaman, R.J. an
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  • ...sonality of high latitudes, phenology is a key aspect of the adaptation of Antarctic organisms and populations to change, and can be used to evaluate the match ...., Baroni, C., Lambert, D.M. 2005. Microevolution and mega-icebergs in the Antarctic, ''Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.'', '''102''', 16717-16722</ref>). This suggests t
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change in the instrumental period]]'' ==General spatial and temporal characteristics of Antarctic snowfall==
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  • ...e it will be essential to use proxy records to represent how Antarctic sea ice has changed in the past. ...ichon, J.J. and Burckle, L.H. 1998b. Reappraisal of Antarctic seasonal sea-ice at the Last Glacial Maximum, ''Geophysical Research Letters'', '''25''', 27
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change over the next 100 years]]'' ...xy data and analogues exist. The broad range of time scale response of the ice sheet guarantees that future behaviour will be composed of a superposition
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment history in the pre-instrumental period]]'' ...ter resolution both temporally (for instance, in the phasing of changes in Antarctic climate, environmental parameters and atmospheric composition) and spatiall
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[The ice sheet in the instrumental period]]'' ...e been considered unlikely even a decade ago. The geographic extent of the ice sheet places different parts in markedly different positions within the glo
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  • ...rt of the topic [[Models of the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic]]'' ...r strengths and weaknesses, before presenting some results relevant to the Antarctic from the models used in the IPCC AR4.
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  • ...nsula Climate Variability: Historical and Paleoenvironmental Perspectives, Antarctic Research Series, 79. American Geophysical Union.</ref>). ...bsequently, numerous studies have addressed the questions of how large the ice sheets were during the LGM, and when they began their retreat.
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  • ...the Global Climate System from 2005 to 2008. He is the co-author of &lsquo;Antarctic Meteorology and Climatology&rsquo; and &lsquo;Polar Lows: Mesoscale Weather ...n quoted commenting on glaciological impacts of the climate on the world's ice sheets and glaciers.
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  • ...summer mean krill density correleated positively with the duration of sea ice the previous winter (Atkinson et al., 2004<ref name="Atkinson et al, 2004"> ...res probably reflect a distribution and dispersal effect across the Scotia Sea and the degree of influence of cooler polar waters in northern regions arou
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  • ...ignificant problem for researchers in many areas of Antarctic science. The Antarctic continent is large and there are logistical difficulties in getting to many ...launch in coming years, many of which will directly benefit studies of the Antarctic. While not exhaustive because of changing plans, some of these are briefly
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  • ...ng|thumb|'''3.9''' Main climatic events of the last 1 Million years in the Antarctic context]] ...sy, J.C., McManus, J.F., Lambeck, K., Balbon, E. and Labracherie, M. 2002. Sea level and deep water temperature changes derived from bentic foraminifera i
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  • ...the lakes, likely related to increased nutrient inputs and a reduction in ice and snow cover at c. 10.2 ka BP, marking the start of relatively warm condi ...Evolution and Processes. Proceedings of the VII International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Siena, 1995. Terra Antarctica, Sienna, 809-820.</ref>).
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  • ...nsula.png|thumb|'''3.26''' Selected Holocene environmental changes &ndash; Antarctic Peninsula]] ...story of the Antarctic Peninsula since the Last Glacial Maximum, Arctic, ''Antarctic and Alpine Research'', '''35''', 175-186.</ref>).
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  • ....png|thumb|'''3.28''' Selected Holocene environmental changes &ndash; Ross Sea]] ...e Wright, a high-level Antarctic lake during the LGM and early Holocene, ''Antarctic Science'', '''13''', 53-60.</ref>). The large amount of water in these lake
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  • ...een sufficient variability during the last ~9 ka to cause major changes to Antarctic ecosystems. This natural variability must be taken into account in understa ...n, E.D. 1999. Past and future grounding-line retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Science 286:280-283.</ref>). Figure modified from Mayewski et al. (2
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  • ...rt of the topic [[Models of the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic]]'' ...lication of a continuum-mechanical model for the flow of anisotropic polar ice to the EDML core, Antarctica.
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  • ...ns in the Ocean-Ocean Processes and Marine Population Dynamics. California Sea Grant College System, La Jolla.</ref>; Finney et al., 2002<ref name="Finney ...thermal specialization paradigm: compensation for elevated temperatures in Antarctic fish, ''Biol. Lett.'', '''2''', 151-154.</ref>).
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