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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: 2022

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: Miles Lamare, Vonda Cummings, Ian Hawes and Rowan Howard-Williams

Summary: The Southern Ocean mops up anthropogenic CO2 emissions. But acting as a ‘sink’ for this excess heat and carbon dioxide is having an effect on the ocean and the ecosystems it supports.