Detection and attribution of Antarctic climate change
The current understanding of climate changes that have occurred in the last 50 years over Antarctica is presented with a focus on: (i) a summer warming of the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, which caused the collapse of the larsen B ice shelf, (ii) the observed significant increase of total sea ice ext...
Published in: | Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/502769/ https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-686X2012000100005 |
Summary: | The current understanding of climate changes that have occurred in the last 50 years over Antarctica is presented with a focus on: (i) a summer warming of the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, which caused the collapse of the larsen B ice shelf, (ii) the observed significant increase of total sea ice extent and (iii) an anthropogenic ‘fingerprint’ in the Antarctic-wide temperature change pattern. The implications of this for predictions of the future are discussed. |
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