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Environment Counts | North and tropical Atlantic linked to climate change in Antarctica :

Published by on Tuesday, January 24th, 2017

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by geoff
on 2014-01-22

The Antarctic Peninsula exhibited the strongest warming of any region on the planet. In addition Antarctic sea ice has undergone a redistribution. An analysis of observational and reanalysis data shows that sea surface warming related to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation reduces the surface pressure in the Amundsen Sea and contributes to the observed sea-ice redistribution between the Ross and Amundsen–Bellingshausen–Weddell seas and to the Antarctic Peninsula warming. The authors suggest that the north and tropical Atlantic is important for projections of future climate change in Antarctica and has the potential to affect global oceanic circulation and sea-level change. Nature, 505, 538–542 (23 January 2014)

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