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Credit: PAL and US LTER

Credit: PAL and US LTER

Over the past five decades, the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) has experienced changes related to rapidly warming winter atmospheric temperatures, dramatic sea ice declines, and accelerated glacial melting. Interactions between ocean and atmospheric climate cycles (El Niño, Southern Annual Mode) influence shoreward heat delivery associated with deep warm ocean waters and alter the upper mixed ocean layer, productivity at the base of the food web, and carbon cycling on the continental shelves.

Learn more

  1. Schofield, O et al. 2018. Changes in upper ocean mixed layer and phytoplankton productivity along the West Antarctic Peninsula. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. doi 10.1098/ rsta.2017.0173
  2. Sailley, S et al. 2013. Carbon fluxes and pelagic ecosystem dynam¬ics around the West Antarctic Peninsula Adélie penguin colonies: An inverse model analysis. Marine Ecology Progress Series. doi: 10.3354/ MEPS10534
  3. Brown, MS et al. 2019. Enhanced oceanic CO2 uptake along the rapidly changing West Antarctic Peninsula. Nature Climate Change. doi: 10.1038/s41558-019-0552-3

Contact

Oscar Schofield
oscar@marine.rutgers.edu

Posted:  July 10, 2020