Shelf on the Antarctic

• Main Authors: Mark A. Bourassa, Sarah T. Gille, Cecilia Bitz, David Carlson, Ivana Cerovecki, Carol Anne Clayson, Meghan F. Cronin, Will M. Drennan, Chris W. Fairall, Ross N. Hoffman, Gudrun Magnusdottir, Rachel T. Pinker, Ian A. Renfrew, Mark Serreze, Kevin Speer, Lynne D. Talley, Gary A. Wick, The Larsen B Ice
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Purkey and Johnson 2010; Antarctic; Arctic; Purkey; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Climate change; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.411.9750; http://www-pord.ucsd.edu/~sgille/pub_dir/bams-d-11-00244.pdf

High latitudes present extreme conditions for the measurement and estimation of air–sea and ice fluxes, limiting understanding of related physical processes and feedbacks that are important elements of the Earth’s climate. High-latitude climate change can manifest itself in astonishing ways. Arctic...