Updates

Date: 2023

Type: Update

Authors: Project 1

Summary: The world’s ice sheets are sensitive to environmental change and, as the largest reservoir of freshwater on Earth, melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet has significant potential to raise sea levels and disrupt global ocean circulation. To determine ice sheet response to warming, our team of researchers in the Antarctic Ice Dynamics project are looking at environmental records of how the Antarctic ice sheets and surrounding ocean have changed in the past, and comparing those records to signals of change that we can detect today.

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: 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: 2022

Type: Press Release

Authors: Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

Summary: Climate change is having significant impacts on Antarctica’s ice sheets, climate and life, with far-reaching global consequences, according to a new report from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) released on May 24 at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Berlin.

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.

Date: 2022

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: Jocelyn Turnbull and Rowan Howard-Williams

Summary: A key question for understanding future climate impacts is what drives the uptake of carbon into sinks, and how that might change. The Southern Ocean absorbs by far the most carbon dioxide of any region of the world.

Date: 2021

Type: In the media

Authors: Breakfast

Summary: Climate scientist Tim Naish estimates 267 million people worldwide live on land that’s at risk of severe storms and flooding.