Climate-induced changes in carbon and nitrogen cycling in the rapidly warming Antarctic coastal ocean

• Main Author: Henley, Sian Frances
• Other Authors: Ganeshram, Raja, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Edinburgh 2013
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; biogeochemistry; carbon; nitrogen; isotopes; nutrients; phytoplankton; West Antarctic Peninsula; sea ice; Climate Change; Global Change Research Institute; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7626

The western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) is a hotspot of climatic and oceanographic change, with a 6°C rise in winter atmospheric temperatures and >1°C warming of the surface ocean since the 1950s. These trends are having a profound impact on the physical environment at the WAP, with widespread glac...