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Cold Call: Edition Six

Date: 2023
Type: Cold Call Article
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: This Cold Call contains four articles that explore how sea ice interacts with the climate, ocean and ecosystem functions across regional and global scales, and highlights where Antarctic Science Platform research is investigating these issues.
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Why is Antarctic sea ice so hard to model?

Date: 2023
Type: Cold Call Article
Authors: Andrew Pauling, Inga Smith, Max Thomas
Summary: Climate models struggle to reproduce observed Antarctic sea-ice behaviour, due to the many processes affecting its formation and melt. Models must get these processes right in order to inform us what might happen next.
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The connections between sea ice and climate

Date: 2023
Type: Cold Call Article
Authors: James Renwick
Summary: Antarctic sea ice has an annual seasonal cycle of formation and melting, plus it’s exposed to the winds and storms of the Southern Ocean and to a range of climate influences from near and far.
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Changes in the Ross Sea and the future of carbon storage

Date: 2022
Type: Cold Call Article
Authors: Miles Lamare, Vonda Cummings, Ian Hawes and Rowan Howard-Williams
Summary: The Southern Ocean mops up anthropogenic CO2 emissions. But acting as a ‘sink’ for this excess heat and carbon dioxide is having an effect on the ocean and the ecosystems it supports.
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The Southern Ocean carbon sink: Will it fill up?

Date: 2022
Type: Cold Call Article
Authors: Jocelyn Turnbull and Rowan Howard-Williams
Summary: A key question for understanding future climate impacts is what drives the uptake of carbon into sinks, and how that might change. The Southern Ocean absorbs by far the most carbon dioxide of any region of the world.
Tim Naish Breakfast

World can expect 50cm sea-level rise by 2100, even if warming stays under 2°C

Date: 2021
Type: In the media
Authors: Breakfast
Summary: Climate scientist Tim Naish estimates 267 million people worldwide live on land that’s at risk of severe storms and flooding.
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ECR - Olivia Truax Fullbright presentation

Date: 2021
Type: People
Summary: Olivia Truax gives a brilliant and fascinating presentation on how the Antarctic Ice Sheets are changing with climate and what this means for Aotearoa.
Modelling Hub

A modelling milestone

Date: 2020
Type: Press Release
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: The National Modelling Hub will be officially opened by the Hon David Parker, Minister for the Environment, at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington today.

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