Tropical teleconnection impacts on Antarctic climate changes

X Li, W Cai, GA Meehl, D Chen, X Yuan… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Over the modern satellite era, substantial climatic changes have been observed in the
Antarctic, including atmospheric and oceanic warming, ice sheet thinning and a general …

The sensitivity of the Antarctic ice sheet to a changing climate: Past, present, and future

TL Noble, EJ Rohling, ARA Aitken… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is out of equilibrium with the current anthropogenic‐
enhanced climate forcing. Paleoenvironmental records and ice sheet models reveal that the …

Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2–Part 2: Antarctica (1979–2016)

JM Van Wessem, WJ Van De Berg, BPY Noël… - The …, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
We evaluate modelled Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) near-surface climate, surface mass balance
(SMB) and surface energy balance (SEB) from the updated polar version of the regional …

Climate change drives expansion of Antarctic ice-free habitat

JR Lee, B Raymond, TJ Bracegirdle, I Chadès… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Antarctic terrestrial biodiversity occurs almost exclusively in ice-free areas that cover less
than 1% of the continent. Climate change will alter the extent and configuration of ice-free …

Evolution of the Southern Annular Mode during the past millennium

NJ Abram, R Mulvaney, F Vimeux, SJ Phipps… - Nature Climate …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) is the primary pattern of climate variability in the
Southern Hemisphere,, influencing latitudinal rainfall distribution and temperatures from the …

Ocean forcing of glacier retreat in the western Antarctic Peninsula

AJ Cook, PR Holland, MP Meredith, T Murray… - Science, 2016 - science.org
In recent decades, hundreds of glaciers draining the Antarctic Peninsula (63° to 70° S) have
undergone systematic and progressive change. These changes are widely attributed to …

The Antarctic Peninsula under a 1.5 C global warming scenario

M Siegert, A Atkinson, A Banwell, M Brandon… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Warming of the Antarctic Peninsula in the latter half of the twentieth century was greater than
any other terrestrial environment in the Southern Hemisphere, and clear cryospheric and …

Divergent trajectories of Antarctic surface melt under two twenty-first-century climate scenarios

LD Trusel, KE Frey, SB Das, KB Karnauskas… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Ice shelves modulate Antarctic contributions to sea-level rise and thereby represent a
critical, climate-sensitive interface between the Antarctic ice sheet and the global ocean …

Widespread seasonal speed-up of west Antarctic Peninsula glaciers from 2014 to 2021

BJ Wallis, AE Hogg, JM van Wessem, BJ Davison… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mass loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet is dominated by ice dynamics, where ocean-driven
melt leads to un-buttressing and ice flow acceleration. Long-term ice speed change has …

The 32-year record-high surface melt in 2019/2020 on the northern George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

AF Banwell, RT Datta, RL Dell, M Moussavi… - The …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
In the 2019/2020 austral summer, the surface melt duration and extent on the northern
George VI Ice Shelf (GVIIS) was exceptional compared to the 31 previous summers of …