Antarctic climate change and the environment: an update

Authors

John Turner, British Antarctic SurveyFollow
Nicholas E. Barrand, British Antarctic Survey
Thomas J. Bracegirdle, British Antarctic Survey
Peter Convey, British Antarctic Survey
Dominic A. Hodgson, British Antarctic Survey
Martin Jarvis, British Antarctic Survey
Adrian Jenkins, British Antarctic Survey
Gareth Marshall, British Antarctic Survey
Michael P. Meredith, British Antarctic Survey
Howard Roscoe, British Antarctic Survey
Jon Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey
John French, Australian Antarctic Division
Hugues Goosse, Universite Catholique de Louvain
Mauro Guglielmin, University of Insubria
Julian Gutt, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Stan Jacobs, Columbia University
Marlon C. Kennicutt, Texas A & M University
Valerie Masson-Delmotte, LSCE
Paul Mayewski, University of Maine
Francisco Navarro, Technical University of Madrid
Sharon A. Robinson, University of WollongongFollow
Ted Scambos, US National Snow and Ice Data Center
Mike Sparrow, University of Cambridge
Colin Summerhayes, Scott Polar Research Institute
Kevin Speer, Florida State University
Alexander Klepikov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute

RIS ID

77758

Publication Details

Turner, J., Barrand, N., Bracegirdle, T., Convey, P., Hodgson, D. A., Jarvis, M., Jenkins, A., Marshall, G., Meredith, M. P., Roscoe, H., Shanklin, J., French, J., Goosse, H., Guglielmin, M., Gutt, J., Jacobs, S., Kennicutt, M. C., Masson-Delmotte, V., Mayewski, P., Navarro, F., Robinson, S. A., Scambos, T., Sparrow, M., Summerhayes, C., Speer, K. & Klepikov, A. (2014). Antarctic climate change and the environment: an update. Polar Record, 50 (3), 237-259.

Abstract

We present an update of the 'key points' from the Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment (ACCE) report that was published by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) in 2009. We summarise subsequent advances in knowledge concerning how the climates of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean have changed in the past, how they might change in the future, and examine the associated impacts on the marine and terrestrial biota. We also incorporate relevant material presented by SCAR to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings, and make use of emerging results that will form part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report.