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Antarctica and climate change

Publication 30 June, 2022

…have also dropped. This creates a larger temperature difference between the tropics and the Antarctic, which affects Southern Hemisphere weather patterns. For example, since 1980 the strength of winds over…

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A diatom-conductivity transfer function for reconstructing past changes in the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds over the Southern Ocean

Publication 16 July, 2015

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Changes in Holocene climate and the intensity of Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds based on a high-resolution palynological record from sub-Antarctic South Georgia

Publication 1 February, 2015

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Southern Hemisphere westerly wind changes during the Last Glacial Maximum: paleo-data synthesis

Publication 15 May, 2013

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Late Holocene changes in precipitation in northwest Tasmania and their potential links to shifts in the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Holocene dynamics of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds and possible links to CO2 outgassing

Publication 23 July, 2018

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Southward migration of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds corresponds with warming climate over centennial timescales

Publication 9 December, 2020

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Regional validation of the use of diatoms in ice cores from the Antarctic Peninsula as a Southern Hemisphere westerly wind proxy

Publication 21 July, 2022

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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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Late Quaternary climatic inferences from southern Patagonia (~53°S): A holistic palaeoecological approach to tracking the behaviour of the southern westerly winds

Publication 1 December, 2023

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CMIP5 diversity in southern westerly jet projections related to historical sea ice area; strong link to strengthening and weak link to shift

Publication 1 January, 2018

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Characteristics of summer airflow over the Antarctic Peninsula in response to recent strengthening of westerly circumpolar winds

Publication 1 April, 2008

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Comparing trends in the Southern Annular Mode and surface westerly jet

Publication 1 November, 2015

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Potential for Southern Hemisphere climate surprises

Publication 1 July, 2015

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The impact of a changing Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode on Antarctic Peninsula summer temperatures

Publication 1 January, 2006

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The impact of polar stratospheric ozone loss on southern hemisphere stratospheric circulation and climate

Publication 22 December, 2014

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Is our dynamical understanding of the circulation changes associated with the Antarctic ozone hole sensitive to the choice of reanalysis dataset?

Publication 18 May, 2021

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Early glacial maximum and deglaciation at sub-Antarctic Marion Island from cosmogenic 36Cl exposure dating

Publication 1 March, 2020

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An atmospheric origin of the multi-decadal bipolar seesaw

Publication 10 March, 2015

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A paleolimnological reconstruction of Holocene climate change in southern Patagonia

Publication 1 December, 2013

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Late Pliocene-Pleistocene Antarctic climate variability at orbital and suborbital scale: ice sheet ocean and atmospheric interactions

Publication 1 January, 2009

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

Publication 13 July, 2014

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Late glacial and Holocene glacial and palaeolake history of the Última Esperanza region of Southern Patagonia

Publication 29 March, 2022

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Variability of sea-ice in the northern Weddell Sea during the 20th century

Publication 12 August, 2014

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Palaeoclimate Southern westerlies and CO2

Publication 1 January, 2010

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Absence of 21st century warming on Antarctic Peninsula consistent with natural variability

Publication 1 July, 2016

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Polar climate change as manifest in atmospheric circulation

Publication 1 December, 2018

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The Antarctic ozone hole during 2017

Publication 11 June, 2020

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West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat driven by Holocene warm water incursions

Publication 1 July, 2017

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A New Daily Observational Record from Grytviken, South Georgia: Exploring Twentieth-Century Extremes in the South Atlantic

Publication 1 March, 2018

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Oceanographic variability on the West Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene and the influence of upper circumpolar deep water

Publication 1 July, 2015

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