Publication Date:
2017-04-04
Description:
Fluctuations in size of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS), a feature of the
southern high latitudes for at least the last 35 million years, have been
one of the major driving forces of changes in global sea level and
climate through the Cenozoic Era. Under the prospect of a warming
climate (IPCC, 2007), it is important to assess the past and future
stability of the cryosphere, particularly after ice core records identified
a direct link between variations in CO2 concentration in the
atmosphere and palaeotemperatures.
This special issue of Global and Planetary Change developed
largely from contributions presented at the EGU meeting in Vienna,
Austria (http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2008/; 13–18 April,
2008), and at the International Geological Congress (IGC) Conference
in Oslo, Norway (www.33igc.org/; 6–14 August, 2008) where we
organised sessions designed to investigate the many orders and scales
of variation of Antarctic ice sheets and palaeoclimate from Antarctic
and Subantarctic records, from outcrop studies, deep sea drilling,
continental margin drilling and seismic investigations, permafrost
and ice core drilling.
This special issue of Global and Planetary Change continues a
series of related special issues and a book (Florindo et al., 2003, 2005;
Barrett et al., 2006; Florindo et al., 2008; Florindo and Siegert, 2009),
all of which are linked to the Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE)
project. ACE is an initiative of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic
Research (SCAR) to investigate the climate and glacial history of
Antarctica by linking climate and ice sheet modelling studies with
terrestrial and marine geological and geophysical evidence of past
changes (www.scar.org/researchgroups/geoscience/ace; http://www.
ace.scar.org). Over the coming years, ACE will pursue a broad range of
objectives to better comprehend past Antarctic changes through
organisation of workshops and publication of special issues, allowing
the dissemination of geological data and numerical modelling to a
wide audience.
Description:
Published
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v-vii
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1.8. Osservazioni di geofisica ambientale
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2.2. Laboratorio di paleomagnetismo
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3.8. Geofisica per l'ambiente
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JCR Journal
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reserved
Keywords:
Antarctica
;
Cenozoic
;
ACE-SCAR
;
ANDRILL
;
03. Hydrosphere::03.01. General::03.01.06. Paleoceanography and paleoclimatology
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
article
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