Antarctic Peninsula climate variability: historical and paleoenvironmental perspectives

Domack, Eugene; Leventer, Amy; Burnett, Adam; Bindschadler, Robert; Convey, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8497-9903; Kirby, Matthew, eds. 2003 Antarctic Peninsula climate variability: historical and paleoenvironmental perspectives. Washington, D.C., American Geophysical Union, 260pp. (Antarctic Research Series, 79).

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Abstract/Summary

The Antarctic Peninsula region represents our best natural laboratory to investigate how earth's major climate systems interact and how such systems respond to rapid regional warming. The scale of environmental changes now taking place across the region is large and their pace rapid but the subsystems involved are still small enough to observe and accurately document cause and affect mechanisms. For example, clarification of ice shelf stability via the Larsen Ice Shelf is vital to understanding the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, its climate evolution, and its response to and control of sea level. By encompassing the broadest range of interdisciplinary studies, this volume provides the global change research and educational communities a framework in which to advance our knowledge of the causes behind regional warming, the dramatic glacial and ecological responses, and the potential uniqueness of the event within the region's paleoclimate record. The volume also serves as a vital resource for public policy and governmental funding agencies as well as a means to educate the large number of ecotourists that visit the region each austral summer.

Item Type:	Publication - Book
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1029/AR079
Programmes:	BAS Programmes > Antarctic Science in the Global Context (2000-2005) > Life at the Edge - Stresses and Thresholds
ISBN:	0-87590-973-6
Date made live:	03 Apr 2012 07:56 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/17581

Item Type:

Publication - Book

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1029/AR079

Programmes:

BAS Programmes > Antarctic Science in the Global Context (2000-2005) > Life at the Edge - Stresses and Thresholds

ISBN:

0-87590-973-6

Date made live:

03 Apr 2012 07:56 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/17581