Wintertime controls on summer stratification and productivity at the western Antarctic Peninsula

HJ Venables, A Clarke… - Limnology and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We report results collected year‐round since 1998 in northern Marguerite Bay, just inside
the Antarctic Circle. The magnitude of the spring phytoplankton bloom is much reduced …

Trends in Antarctic Peninsula surface melting conditions from observations and regional climate modeling

NE Barrand, DG Vaughan, N Steiner… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Multidecadal meteorological station records and microwave backscatter time‐series from the
SeaWinds scatterometer onboard QuikSCAT (QSCAT) were used to calculate temporal and …

The modelled surface mass balance of the Antarctic Peninsula at 5.5 km horizontal resolution

JM Van Wessem, SRM Ligtenberg, CH Reijmer… - The …, 2016 - tc.copernicus.org
This study presents a high-resolution (∼ 5.5 km) estimate of surface mass balance (SMB)
over the period 1979–2014 for the Antarctic Peninsula (AP), generated by the regional …

Impacts of the oceans on climate change

PC Reid, AC Fischer, E Lewis-Brown… - Advances in marine …, 2009 - Elsevier
The oceans play a key role in climate regulation especially in part buffering (neutralising) the
effects of increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and rising global …

Multiproxy summer and winter surface air temperature field reconstructions for southern South America covering the past centuries

R Neukom, J Luterbacher, R Villalba, M Küttel… - Climate Dynamics, 2011 - Springer
We statistically reconstruct austral summer (winter) surface air temperature fields back to ad
900 (1706) using 22 (20) annually resolved predictors from natural and human archives …

The signature of Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation patterns in Antarctic precipitation

GJ Marshall, DWJ Thompson… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We provide the first comprehensive analysis of the relationships between large‐scale
patterns of Southern Hemisphere climate variability and the detailed structure of Antarctic …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstruction of ice-sheet changes in the Antarctic Peninsula since the Last Glacial Maximum

CÓ Cofaigh, BJ Davies, SJ Livingstone… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper compiles and reviews marine and terrestrial data constraining the dimensions
and configuration of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet (APIS) from the Last Glacial Maximum …

Contrasting climate change in the two polar regions

J Turner, J Overland - Polar Research, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
The two polar regions have experienced remarkably different climatic changes in recent
decades. The Arctic has seen a marked reduction in sea-ice extent throughout the year, with …

Reconstructing atmospheric circulation and sea-ice extent in the West Antarctic over the past 200 years using data assimilation

Q Dalaiden, H Goosse, J Rezsöhazy, ER Thomas - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The West Antarctic climate has witnessed large changes during the second half of
the twentieth century including a strong and widespread continental warming, important …

A new Antarctic Peninsula glacier basin inventory and observed area changes since the 1940s

AJ Cook, DG Vaughan, AJ Luckman, T Murray - Antarctic Science, 2014 - cambridge.org
Glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula have recently shown changes in extent, velocity and
thickness, yet there is little quantification of change in the mass balance of individual …