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• 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 in the instrumental period
  ...itions across the Southern Ocean, ocean conditions, the sea ice extent and the terrestrial and marine biology. ...emainder of the Nineteenth Century and it was not possible to venture into the inhospitable interior of Antarctica.
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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
  ...and its effects on global sea level, and the changing distribution of sea ice and its effect on climate are then described. ...tanding of the climate and biological changes that might be anticipated in the near future (Chapter 5).
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• Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment
  ...rld where greenhouse gas concentrations are much higher than occurred over the last few centuries. ...SCAR Advisory Group on ACCE] has overall responsibility for the content of the wiki and plan to keep it up to date as new research results emerge. We hope
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• Antarctic deglaciation and its impact on global sea level
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The last million years]]'' ...e-dynamic reconstructions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets during the glacial cycles, ''Quaternary Science Reviews'', '''21''', 203-231.</ref>).
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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 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 &lsquo;describe&rsquo; 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 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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• Concluding remarks on the pre-instrumental period
  ...s 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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• 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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• Deglaciation of the continental shelf, coastal margin and continental interior
  :''This page is part of the topic [[The last million years]]'' ...nsula Climate Variability: Historical and Paleoenvironmental Perspectives, Antarctic Research Series, 79. American Geophysical Union.</ref>).
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• Editors
  ...ty Press. He was awarded the International Journal of Climatology Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society in 2005. ...n quoted commenting on glaciological impacts of the climate on the world's ice sheets and glaciers.
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• Future developments in Antarctic observation
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Observations, data accuracy and tools]]'' ...ed increasingly in recent decades and this trend is certain to continue in the future.
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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 change in East Antarctica (EA)
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Regional patterns of holocene climate change in Antarctica]]'' ==Deglaciation history and the Pleistocene-Holocene transition==
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• Holocene climate change in the Antarctic Peninsula (AP)
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Regional patterns of holocene climate change in Antarctica]]'' ==Deglaciation history and the Pleistocene-Holocene transition==
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• Holocene climate change in the Ross Sea region (RS)
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Regional patterns of holocene climate change in Antarctica]]'' ==Deglaciation history the Pleistocene-Holocene transition==
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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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• Ice sheet models
  ...rt of the topic [[Models of the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic]]'' ...n of a continuum-mechanical model for the flow of anisotropic polar ice to the EDML core, Antarctica.
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• Key points - 2009 version
  ...ill increase by several degrees and there will be about one third less sea ice.</li> ==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 biological responses to climate change
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Biological responses to climate change]]'' ...nctions is unknown. Bivalves appear to have been particularly badly hit in the intervening 35 Ma and it is possible that this happened for a variety of re
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• Marine biota of the Antarctic
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Biota of the Antarctic]]'' ...rs of the Antarctic shelf comparable to classic evolutionary sites such as the Galapagos.
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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, data accuracy and tools
  ...tained from satellite systems that have become increasingly important over the last couple of decades. ...ng to be employed in biology &ndash; a trend that seems set to continue in the future.
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• Observations of Antarctic permafrost
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Observations, data accuracy and tools]]'' ...., Shiklomanov, N.I. and Hinkel, K.M. 1998. Spatial temporal attributes of the active-layer thickness record, Barrow, Alaska, USA. In: Lewkowicz, AG., All
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• Observations of the ice sheet
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Observations, data accuracy and tools]]'' ...tion about the processes that operate to change the Antarctic environment. The combination of fieldwork, aircraft, and satellite measurements has revealed
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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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• Pathways of research in cold-adapted organisms and climate change
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Marine biology over the next 100 years]]'' ...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>).
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• Precipitation changes over the 21st century
  :''This page is part of the topic [[Atmospheric change over the next 100 years]]'' ...for resolving the uncertainty surrounding the future of the Antarctic ice sheet.
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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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• 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 &lsquo;sub-Antarctic&rsquo; (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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