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• File:Figure 5.11 - Observations and model predictions of minimum September to October total column ozone.png ...r et al, 2005">Bodeker, G.E., Shiona, H. and Eskes, H. 2005. Indicators of Antarctic ozone depletion, ''Atmos. Chem. Phys.'', '''5''', 2603-2615.</ref>). Solid (543 × 488 (113 KB)) - 15:30, 6 August 2014

• File:Figure 4.56 - Annual mean uptake of air-sea CO2 fluxes as calculated from OPA-PISCES 1990-1999.png ...ors), whereas south of 50°S, large regions act as a CO2 source for the atmosphere (red). (522 × 299 (218 KB)) - 15:30, 6 August 2014

• File:Figure 4.41 - Pictorial view of the ocean-ice system of the Ross Sea.png ...o the atmosphere (wavy vertical line) while the remainder circulated under the floating ice shelf causing basal melting. (illustration courtesy of Nationa (533 × 342 (194 KB)) - 15:31, 6 August 2014

• File:Figure 4.26 - Cross-section showing warm water penetrating the Pine Island Bay sub-ice shelf cavity.png ...tarc. Res. Ser.'', '''75''', 83-99.</ref>). The solid black area indicates the sea bed. (592 × 309 (119 KB)) - 15:31, 6 August 2014

• Antarctic and Southern Ocean sea level projections
  ...page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change over the next 100 years]]'' ...and and Antarctica). The amount of thermal expansion is non-uniform due to the influence of ocean currents and spatial variations in ocean warming. Global
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• Antarctic climate and environment change over the next 100 years
  ...f the changes observed in recent decades. This is particularly the case in the ocean where we have few long time series of physical measurements and remar ...as near-surface air temperature it is possible to use the projections from the various models to derive various estimates of how temperature may change ov
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• Antarctic climate and environment history in the pre-instrumental period
  ...ciation, retreat of the ice sheet and its effects on global sea level, and the changing distribution of sea ice and its effect on climate are then describ ...tanding of the climate and biological changes that might be anticipated in the near future (Chapter 5).
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• Antarctic sea ice cover in the instrumental period
  ...is page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change in the instrumental period]]'' ...were reliant on sparse ship observations that were mainly collected during the summer months.
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• Atmospheric change over the next 100 years
  ...page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change over the next 100 years]]'' #[[Atmospheric circulation changes over the 21st century]]
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• Atmospheric chemistry changes over the 21st century
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Atmospheric change over the next 100 years]]'' ==Antarctic stratospheric ozone over the next 100 years==
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• Atmospheric chemistry in the instrumental period
  ...is 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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• Atmospheric circulation changes in the instrumental period
  ...is page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change in the instrumental period]]'' ...random sample, and can ‘describe’ a significant proportion of the total circulation variability.
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• Atmospheric circulation changes over the 21st century
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Atmospheric change over the next 100 years]]'' ...he distribution of sea ice, and the seasonal to interannual variability of the Southern Hemisphere.
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• Attribution of ice sheet changes in the instrumental period
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The ice sheet in the instrumental period]]'' ...ange. The inescapable fact is that ice sheet behaviour manifests itself as the superposition of multiple responses on multiple time scales to multiple env
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• Changes in Antarctic snowfall over the past 50 years
  ...is 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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• Changes in sea ice extent through the Holocene
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The Holocene]]'' ...ial to use proxy records to represent how Antarctic sea ice has changed in the past.
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• Changes to the Terrestrial cryosphere over the next 100 years
  ...page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change over the next 100 years]]'' ...uperposition of the continuing gradual response to past climate change and the more rapid responses to present and future changes.
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• Conclusions on the ice sheet in the instrumental period
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The ice sheet in the instrumental period]]'' ...he ice sheet places different parts in markedly different positions within the global climate system and subjects them to different environmental drivers.
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• Coupled atmosphere-ocean models
  ...rt of the topic [[Models of the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic]]'' ...reproduce reality. Such reality checks are often crude, given that most of the commonly used GCMs do not operate at a finer scale than one-degree squares.
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• Glacial interglacial cycles
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The last million years]]'' ...ng|thumb|'''3.9''' Main climatic events of the last 1 Million years in the Antarctic context]]
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• Holocene climate changes
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The Holocene]]'' ...variability must be taken into account in understanding modern climate and the potential for future climate change.
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• Impacts of instrumental period climate change on invertebrates
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Marine biology in the instrumental period]]'' ...ated with the climate regime can be interpreted as major driving forces on the large scale biogeography of marine water breathing animals. These relations
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• In-situ ocean observations
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Observations, data accuracy and tools]]'' ...per, 2007">Smith, W. and Asper, V.A. 2007. New Ways to Collect Data in the Antarctic, EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 88, no. 48, 525.</ref>).
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• Key points - 2009 version
  ...e gas concentrations increase at the present rate then temperatures across the continent will increase by several degrees and there will be about one thir ==The Geological Dimension (Deep Time)==
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• Key points - 2013 version
  ...CE Consortium. 2009. Review: Antarctic climate change and the environment, Antarctic Science, 1-23.</ref>). ...nline PDF version of the report is available to download without cost from the SCAR web site (http://www.scar.org/publications/occasionals/acce.html) or h
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• Marine and terrestrial pollution
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Marine biology in the instrumental period]]'' ...bal processes (Bargagli, 2005<ref name="Bargagli, 2005">Bargagli, R. 2005. Antarctic Ecosystems: Environmental Contamination, Climate Change, and Human Impact.
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• Meteorological and ozone observing in the Antarctic
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Observations, data accuracy and tools]]'' ...atic stations. A further boost to the observing network has taken place in the International Polar Year of 2007 &ndash; 2008.
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• Modelling of the ACC and polar gyres
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The Southern Ocean in the instrumental period]]'' ...shortcomings, so their results have to be considered with as much care as the ones derived from observations alone. Indeed, some models throw up contradi
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• Models of the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Observations, data accuracy and tools]]'' ...es. In this section we examine some of the major classes of models used in Antarctic studies.
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• Near-shore marine disturbances over the next 100 years
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Marine biology over the next 100 years]]'' ...rrigno, J. 2005, Retreating glacier fronts on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past half-century, ''Science'', '''308''', 541-544.</ref>).
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• Observations for studies of environmental change in the Antarctic
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The Antarctic environment in the global system]]'' ...as meteorology, solar-terrestrial interactions in the Earth&rsquo;s outer atmosphere (known as &lsquo;geospace&rsquo;), coastal sea ice conditions, and sea leve
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• Ocean change over the next 100 years
  ...page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change over the next 100 years]]'' ==Simulation of present-day conditions in the Southern Ocean.==
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• Ocean models of the Southern Ocean
  ...rt of the topic [[Models of the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic]]'' ...ost and physical realism. This is especially true for ocean models because the computational cost is always high, and can be hundreds of times that of a c
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• Precipitation changes over the 21st century
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Atmospheric change over the next 100 years]]'' ...s is paramount for resolving the uncertainty surrounding the future of the Antarctic ice sheet.
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• About ACCE
  ...ake place among some of the remotest and harshest environments anywhere on the Earth&rsquo;s surface. ...rnational Geophysical Year of 1957-58. Many more results also emerged from the [http://www.ipy.org/ International Polar Year] of 2007-2008.
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• Recommendations
  ...ailable with which to investigate change &ndash; 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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• Regional climate models
  ...rt of the topic [[Models of the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic]]'' ...n a subgrid scale &ndash; like the scale of the Antarctic Peninsula. While the spatial resolution of GCMs will increase, their capabilities will continue
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• Satellite observations of the Southern Ocean
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Observations, data accuracy and tools]]'' ...ography, and their utility is nowhere greater than in data-poor regions of the Southern Ocean. They include, for example: - altimeters, scatterometers, in
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• Sea ice biological and physical modeling
  ...rt of the topic [[Models of the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic]]'' ...lgal growth (Garrison, 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 over the last million years
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The last million years]]'' ...Pichon, J.J. 2004. Late Qaternary sea ice history in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean as record by diatom assemblages, ''Marine Micropaleontology'
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• Small-scale processes in the Southern Ocean
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The Southern Ocean in the instrumental period]]'' ...uantification of such processes is a prerequisite for successful modelling the large scale conditions.
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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]]'' ...tic can be determined using a number of different forms of data, including the ''in-situ'' observations, satellite infra-red imagery and ice core isotope
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• Temperature changes over the 21st century
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Atmospheric change over the next 100 years]]'' [[File:Figure 5.6 - Skin temperature trend over the Twenty First Century.png|thumb|'''5.6''' Skin temperature trend over Twenty
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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 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 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 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 ice sheet in the instrumental period
  ...is page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change in the instrumental period]]'' ...rn of flow specific to the current climate, where flow exactly compensates the spatial pattern of ice accumulation (snowfall and frost deposition) and ice
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