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Date: 2023

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: Antarctic Science Platform

Summary: This Cold Call contains four articles that explore how sea ice interacts with the climate, ocean and ecosystem functions across regional and global scales, and highlights where Antarctic Science Platform research is investigating these issues.

Date: 2023

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: Andrew Pauling, Inga Smith, Max Thomas

Summary: Climate models struggle to reproduce observed Antarctic sea-ice behaviour, due to the many processes affecting its formation and melt. Models must get these processes right in order to inform us what might happen next.

Date: 2023

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: Rowan Howard-Williams, Ian Hawes

Summary: Sea ice plays a crucial role in the life cycles of many Antarctic organisms, from the algae at the base of food chains, to seals and penguins at the top.

Date: 2023

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: James Renwick

Summary: Antarctic sea ice has an annual seasonal cycle of formation and melting, plus it’s exposed to the winds and storms of the Southern Ocean and to a range of climate influences from near and far.

Date: 2023

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: Rowan Howard-Williams, Denise Fernandez, Craig Stevens

Summary: Formation of Antarctic sea ice affects ocean circulation across the globe. Understanding the mechanisms linking these phenomena is crucially important to understand the impacts of future change in Antarctica.

Date: 2023

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: Antarctic Science Platform

Summary: This issue of Cold Call focuses on activities surrounding the annual Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM).

Date: 2022

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: Rowan Howard-Williams

Summary: How climate change affects Antarctica is going to influence the speed and severity of changes in New Zealand and the rest of the planet. Climate change is a priority topic in Antarctic governance. Next year the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting has dedicated a day to consider the implementation of recommendations in a landmark climate change report. Those discussions will take place in a unique policy setting, almost as unusual as Antarctica itself, because the continent is ‘governed’ by an international treaty system.

Date: 2022

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: Rowan Howard-Williams and Michelle LaRue

Summary: Emperor penguins are an iconic Antarctic species, but their dependence on sea ice means they are expected to be impacted substantially by climate change.