The marine ecosystem of the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) extends from the
Bellingshausen Sea to the northern tip of the peninsula and from the mostly glaciated coast …

Around Antartica the annual five-fold growth and decay of sea ice is the most prominent
physical process and has a profound impact on marine life there. In winter the pack ice …

In sharp contrast to the decreasing sea ice coverage of the Arctic, in the Antarctic the sea ice
cover has, on average, expanded since the late 1970s. More specifically, satellite passive …

Previous studies have shown strong contrasting trends in annual sea ice duration and in
monthly sea ice concentration in two regions of the Southern Ocean: decreases in the …

We examine the evolution of sea-ice extent (SIE) over both polar regions for 35 years from
November 1978 to December 2013, as well as for the global total ice (Arctic plus Antarctic) …

In contrast to the Arctic, where total sea ice extent (SIE) has been decreasing for the last
three decades, Antarctic SIE has shown a small, but significant, increase during the same …

The principal characteristics of the variability of Antarctic sea ice cover as previously
described from satellite passive microwave observations are also evident in a systematically …

The instrumental record of Antarctic sea ice in recent decades does not reveal a clear
signature of warming despite observational evidence from coastal Antarctica. Here we report …

The anomalies in the climate and sea ice cover of the Southern Ocean and their
relationships with the Southern Oscillation (SO) are investigated using a 17-yr dataset from …

The Southern Hemisphere westerlies in the southwest Pacific are known to have waxed and
waned numerous times during the last two glacial cycles, though even semi-continuous …