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SUBMITTER: Liu J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2930561 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Jiping J Curry Judith A JA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100816 34
The observed sea surface temperature in the Southern Ocean shows a substantial warming trend for the second half of the 20th century. Associated with the warming, there has been an enhanced atmospheric hydrological cycle in the Southern Ocean that results in an increase of the Antarctic sea ice for the past three decades through the reduced upward ocean heat transport and increased snowfall. The simulated sea surface temperature variability from two global coupled climate models for the second h ...[more]