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Publication 1 June, 2023
…al., 2023). These Antarctic heat extremes, and Southern Ocean circulation and sea-ice cover changes, are not necessarily tipping points. However, on the back of global warming, these type of changes…
Publication 30 June, 2022
…ice loss affect sea level? The loss of ice from ice shelves has very little direct impact on sea level, but the acceleration of glaciers draining ice from the grounded…
Read more on The Antarctic Peninsula’s retreating ice shelves
Publication 30 June, 2022
Introduction Ice cores are cylinders of ice drilled out of an ice sheet or glacier. Most ice core records come from Antarctica and Greenland, and the longest ice cores extend…
Publication 30 June, 2022
…in area, the new iceberg represents more than 10% of the ice shelf. The block of ice is about 190 metres thick, with about 30 metres sitting above the sea…
Publication 30 June, 2022
…How do ice sheets affect sea level? If glaciers and ice sheets shrink, ice that was held above sea level will find its way into the oceans. If ocean volume…
Publication 30 June, 2022
…the underside of winter sea ice. The observed Adélie and chinstrap population changes in the Western Antarctic Peninsula are linked to reductions in sea ice and the associated changes in…
Publication 30 June, 2022
…Ocean, there was a slight overall increase in Antarctic sea-ice extent from 1979-2014. After this, sea-ice extent declined steeply and has since exhibited large year-to-year fluctuations, but around a lower…
Publication 8 January, 2018
…that the Olympic nature of the krill fishery meant interpretation of seasonal fishing activity required careful evaluation of seasonal patterns and interactions, and consideration of fishing season start date (SC-XXXV…
Publication 27 October, 2022
…ice and destabilise ice masses. In the most extreme cases experienced so far, high temperatures have triggered the loss of floating ice shelves from around the edges of Antarctica. If…
Publication 30 June, 2022
…efforts are too infrequent to show how stocks change from year to year or season to season. BAS has monitored changes in both krill stocks and its predators at smaller…
Read more on Krill fishing and conservation in the Southern Ocean
Publication 17 July, 2018
…least understood environments on our planet. They respond to global temperature change; absorb heat and carbon from the atmosphere, including that produced by humans; they sustain millions of seabirds, whales…
Publication 1 January, 1992
Read more on The response of large ice sheets to climatic change
