2 Is Recent Sea Ice Expansion in the Southern Ocean Anthropogenic?

• Main Authors: X. Qu, J. Boé, Ellen Mosley-thompson, Lonnie G. Thompson
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Arctic; Bellingshausen Sea; Ross Sea; Southern Ocean; Talos Dome; Victoria Land; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.389.4185; http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/csrl/publications/Hall/Qu_et_al_2009a.pdf

Though Arctic sea ice extent has been declining, sea ice in the Southern Ocean has experienced modest expansion since the 1970s. This weak positive trend results from sea ice growth in the western Ross Sea (WRS) that slightly exceeds shrinkage near the western Antarctic Peninsula and in the southern...