The marine system of the West Antarctic Peninsula: status and strategy for progress

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
• Main Authors: Hendry, Katharine R., Meredith, Michael P., Ducklow, Hugh W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Royal Society 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Antarctic Peninsula; Kavli; Antarc*; Antarctica; British Antarctic Survey
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520130/; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0179

The West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP; figure 1) is one of the most climatically sensitive regions on Earth and one of the most variable. The strong climatic variability gives us the opportunity to study and understand how the ocean responds to—and gives feedback on—climate change, and hence to learn ab...