Introduction to ‘Antarctic cryosphere and Southern Ocean climate evolution (Cenozoic-Holocene)’

• Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
• Main Authors: Florindo, F., Nelson, A. E., Haywood, A. M.
• Other Authors: Florindo, F.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma2, Roma, Italia, Nelson, A. E.; British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, CB3 0ET, Cambridge, UK, Haywood, A. M.; School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma2, Roma, Italia, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, CB3 0ET, Cambridge, UK, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Antarctica; Cenozoic; 02. Cryosphere::02.04. Sea ice::02.04.99. General or miscellaneous; 04. Solid Earth::04.04. Geology::04.04.99. General or miscellaneous; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2122/3394; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.12.001

The Antarctic region has profoundly affected the global climates of the Cenozoic, influencing sea levels, atmospheric composition and dynamics, and ocean circulation. According to IPCC-2007 (IPCC, 2007) worst-case scenario projections, temperatures by 2100 are likely to exceed those that have been experienced by the Earth in the last 40 myr when the Antarctic Ice Sheet may have first developed. This implies that the Ice Sheet will become unsustainable, with huge implications for global sea-levels. In press 2.2. Laboratorio di paleomagnetismo JCR Journal reserved