Ice core evidence for Antarctic sea ice decline since the 1950s

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Curran, MAJ, van Ommen, TD, Morgan, VI, Phillips, KL, Palmer, AS
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association Advancement Science 2003
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Palaeoclimatology; Antarctic; Law Dome; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1087888; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/39292

The instrumental record of Antarctic sea ice in recent decades does not reveal a clear signature of warming despite observational evidence from coastal Antarctica. Here we report a significant correlation ( P <0.002) between methanesulphonic acid (MSA) concentrations from a Law Dome ice core and...