The Southern Annular Mode: variability, trends, and climate impacts across the Southern Hemisphere

RL Fogt, GJ Marshall - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) is the leading mode of extratropical Southern
Hemisphere climate variability, associated with changes in the strength and position of the …

The Antarctic Slope Current in a changing climate

AF Thompson, AL Stewart, P Spence… - Reviews of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Antarctic Slope Current (ASC) is a coherent circulation feature that rings the
Antarctic continental shelf and regulates the flow of water toward the Antarctic coastline. The …

Signatures of the Antarctic ozone hole in Southern Hemisphere surface climate change

DWJ Thompson, S Solomon, PJ Kushner… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have driven and
will continue to drive widespread climate change at the Earth's surface. But surface climate …

Assessing recent trends in high-latitude Southern Hemisphere surface climate

JM Jones, ST Gille, H Goosse, NJ Abram… - Nature Climate …, 2016 - nature.com
Understanding the causes of recent climatic trends and variability in the high-latitude
Southern Hemisphere is hampered by a short instrumental record. Here, we analyse recent …

A review of recent changes in Southern Ocean sea ice, their drivers and forcings

WR Hobbs, R Massom, S Stammerjohn, P Reid… - Global and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Over the past 37 years, satellite records show an increase in Antarctic sea ice cover that is
most pronounced in the period of sea ice growth. This trend is dominated by increased sea …

Present-day south american climate

RD Garreaud, M Vuille, R Compagnucci… - Palaeogeography …, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper documents the main features of the climate and climate variability over South
America, on the basis of instrumental observations gathered during the 20th Century. It …

Historical and projected changes in the Southern Hemisphere surface westerlies

R Goyal, A Sen Gupta, M Jucker… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Southern Hemisphere (SH) surface westerlies fundamentally control regional
patterns of air temperature, storm tracks, and precipitation while also regulating ocean …

Conditions leading to the unprecedented low Antarctic sea ice extent during the 2016 austral spring season

MF Stuecker, CM Bitz, KC Armour - Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The 2016 austral spring was characterized by the lowest Southern Hemisphere (SH) sea ice
extent seen in the satellite record (1979 to present) and coincided with anomalously warm …

Impacts of teleconnection patterns on South America climate

MS Reboita, T Ambrizzi, NM Crespo… - Annals of the New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Oceanic heat sources disturb the atmosphere, which, to come back to its initial state,
disperses waves. These waves affect the climate in remote regions, characterizing the …

Circumpolar structure and distribution of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current fronts: 1. Mean circumpolar paths

S Sokolov, SR Rintoul - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
High resolution hydrographic sections and maps of the gradient of sea surface height (SSH)
reveal that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) consists of multiple jets or frontal …