Winter warming in West Antarctica caused by central tropical Pacific warming

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Ding, Qinghua, Steig, Eric J., Battisti, David S., Küttel, Marcel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2011
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Byrd; Ellsworth Land; Marie Byrd Land; Pacific; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/37909/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/37909/1/Ding.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1129

The Pacific sector of Antarctica, including both the Antarctic Peninsula and continental West Antarctica, has experienced substantial warming in the past 30 years. An increase in the circumpolar westerlies, owing in part to the decline in stratospheric ozone concentrations since the late 1970s, may...