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Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic tipping points

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…

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Ice cores and climate change

Publication 30 June, 2022

…that major changes in atmospheric circulation and climate were experienced all around the northern hemisphere. Antarctica and the Southern Ocean experienced a different pattern, consistent with the idea that these…

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Nacreous (also known as mother of pearl or stratospheric) clouds. These clouds form at around 20km altitude in the ozone layer and are instrumental in the process of ozone depletion. Because of their altitude they remain illuminated by the sun, long after sunset on the ground.

The Ozone Hole

Publication 30 June, 2022

…globally the depletion now averages out at about 3%. Is the Ozone Hole linked to global warming? A side effect of global warming is that the temperature of the ozone…

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Comparison of two time-variant forced eddy-permitting global ocean circulation models with hydrography of the Scotia Sea

Publication 1 January, 2005

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Southern Ocean circulation and frontal dynamics from Cryosat-2 a long-track radar altimetry

Publication 24 July, 2019

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Deep-Reaching Global Ocean Overturning Circulation Generated by Surface Buoyancy Forcing

Publication 20 December, 2023

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Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS): Rationale and strategy for sustained observations of the Southern Ocean

Publication 1 January, 2010

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Sensitivity of the overturning circulation in the Southern Ocean to decadal changes in wind forcing

Publication 1 January, 2012

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The contribution of the Weddell Gyre to the lower limb of the global overturning circulation

Publication 14 June, 2014

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Onset and development of the Drake Passage and Scotia Sea gateways and its influence on global ocean circulation and climate (IODP proposal)

Publication 1 January, 2016

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Deepening of Southern Ocean gateway leads to abrupt onset of a deep-reaching meridional overturning circulation

Publication 16 October, 2023

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The influence of Southern Ocean winds on the North Atlantic carbon sink

Publication 1 June, 2016

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The Southern Ocean Observing System: Initial science and implementation strategy

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Improvements in Circumpolar Southern Hemisphere Extratropical Atmospheric Circulation in CMIP6 Compared to CMIP5

Publication 1 June, 2020

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Petrels and icebergs at Signy Island

Untangling local and remote influences in two major petrel habitats in the oligotrophic Southern Ocean

Publication 1 November, 2021

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Comparison of the emergent behavior of a complex ecosystem model in two ocean general circulation models

Publication 1 January, 2010

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Shackleton Fracture Zone: no barrier to early circumpolar ocean circulation

Publication 1 January, 2004

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Antarctic marine biodiversity – What do we know about the distribution of life in the Southern Ocean?

Publication 1 January, 2010

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The Southern Ocean Observing System

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Combined influence of meso-scale circulation and bathymetry on the foraging behaviour of a diving predator, the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus)

Publication 1 February, 2016

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State of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate system

Publication 1 January, 2009

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Role of squid in the Southern Ocean pelagic ecosystem and the possible consequences of climate change

Publication 15 October, 2013

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Evolution of the deep and bottom waters of the Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean, during 1995-2005

Publication 1 January, 2008

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The Weddell Gyre, Southern Ocean: present knowledge and future challenges

Publication 1 September, 2019

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A comparison of global estimates of marine primary production from ocean color

Publication 1 January, 2006

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UK Global Ocean GO6 and GO7: a traceable hierarchy of model resolutions

Publication 10 August, 2018

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Implementing a Southern Ocean Observing System

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Ocean biogeochemical response to phytoplankton-light feedback in a global model

Publication 1 January, 2008

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The Southern Ocean Observing System

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Reframing the carbon cycle of the subpolar Southern Ocean

Publication 28 August, 2019

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The thermohaline expressway: The Southern Ocean as a centre of origin for deep-sea octopuses

Publication 1 December, 2008

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Sustained monitoring of the Southern Ocean at Drake Passage: past achievements and future priorities

Publication 2 December, 2011

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The interdisciplinary marine system of the Amundsen Sea, Southern Ocean: recent advances and the need for sustained observations

Publication 1 January, 2016

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Ocean-atmosphere heat fluxes at the Ronne Polynya, Antarctica

Publication 1 January, 2010

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Southern Ocean frontal structure and sea ice formation rates revealed by elephant seals

Publication 1 January, 2008

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Oceanic fronts control the distribution of dissolved barium in the Southern Ocean

Publication 20 August, 2018

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Eddy-induced variability in Southern Ocean abyssal mixing on climatic timescales

Publication 13 July, 2014

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The Southern Ocean in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5

Publication 2 June, 2014

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Aspects of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current dynamics investigated with drifter data

Publication 1 June, 2014

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Rapid cross-density ocean mixing at mid-depths in the Drake Passage measured by tracer release

Publication 19 September, 2013

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Carbon dynamics of the Weddell Gyre, Southern Ocean

Publication 1 March, 2015

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High-resolution modelling of the shelf and open ocean adjacent to South Georgia, Southern Ocean

Publication 1 January, 2011

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The low-resolution version of HadGEM3 GC3.1: development and evaluation for global climate

Publication 1 November, 2018

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Mean, variability, and trend of Southern Ocean wind stress: role of wind fluctuations

Publication 1 May, 2018

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Latest Quaternary dinoflagellate cyst climatostratigraphy for three cores from the Falkland Trough, Scotia and Weddell seas, Southern Ocean

Publication 1 January, 1999

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Penguin responses to climate change in the Southern Ocean

Publication 1 January, 2009

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Southern Ocean wind stress in CMIP5 models: Role of wind fluctuations

Publication 1 February, 2020

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Modelling the impact of ocean warming on melting and water masses of ice shelves in the Eastern Weddell Sea

Publication 1 January, 2010

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Global climate impacts from changes in Antarctic Intermediate Water

Publication 15 August, 2014

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Southern Ocean deep-sea biodiversity: sampling strategies and predicting responses to climate change

Publication 1 January, 2008

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Rapid mixing and exchange of deep-ocean waters in an abyssal boundary current

Publication 2 July, 2019

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Monitoring the Atlantic Circumpolar Current in the Drake Passage: oceanography in the Drake Passage: wherefrom, whereto and what in between?

Publication 13 April, 2010

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Southern Hemisphere westerly wind changes during the Last Glacial Maximum: model-data comparison

Publication 15 March, 2013

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Miocene to present oceanographic variability in the Scotia Sea and Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics: Insight from revised seismic-stratigraphy following IODP Expedition 382

Publication 1 January, 2021

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An updated seabed bathymetry beneath Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

Publication 20 April, 2020

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A preliminary study to investigate the biogeophysical impact of desertification on climate based on different latitudinal bands

Publication 1 February, 2016

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Drake Passage and Cenozoic climate: An open and shut case?

Publication 1 January, 2007

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Small basins in the Scotia Sea: the Eocene Drake Passage gateway

Publication 1 January, 2006

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An atmospheric origin of the multi-decadal bipolar seesaw

Publication 10 March, 2015

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The fieldwork during the “Polarstern” cruise ANT XVI/2 as a contribution to the study of bottom water formation and sea ice transport in the Weddell Sea

Publication 1 January, 2006

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Evaluating the efficacy of planktonic foraminifer calcite δ18O data for sea surface temperature reconstruction for the Late Miocene

Publication 1 January, 2005

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Rapid sea-level rise along the Antarctic margins in response to increased glacial discharge

Publication 31 October, 2014

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Control of sedimentation by active tectonics, glaciation and contourite-depositing currents in Endurance Basin, South Georgia

Publication 1 December, 2014

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Radar observations of winds, waves and tides in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere over South Georgia island (54° S, 36° W) and comparison with WACCM simulations

Publication 22 July, 2022

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Understanding the evolution of the Scotia Arc

Publication 30 July, 2013

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Jets and topography: jet transitions and the impact on transport in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Potential seaways across West Antarctica

Publication 1 January, 2011

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