ArticleNature communications2017
Holocene sea ice variability driven by wind and polynya efficiency in the Ross Sea.
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- Warming-induced retreat of West Antarctic glaciers weakened carbon sequestration ability but increased mercury enrichment.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Ocean cavity regime shift reversed West Antarctic grounding line retreat in the late Holocene.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Seasonal Evolution of Size-Segregated Particulate Mercury in the Atmospheric Aerosol Over Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records.Scientific data · 2020Article
- First marine cryptotephra in Antarctica found in sediments of the western Ross Sea correlates with englacial tephras and climate records.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Nordic Seas polynyas and their role in preconditioning marine productivity during the Last Glacial Maximum.Nature communications · 2018Article
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Abstract
The causes of the recent increase in Antarctic sea ice extent, characterised by large regional contrasts and decadal variations, remain unclear. In the Ross Sea, where such a sea ice increase is reported, 50% of the sea ice is produced within wind-sustained latent-heat polynyas. Combining information from marine diatom records and sea salt sodium and water isotope ice core records, we here document contrasting patterns in sea ice variations between coastal and open sea areas in Western Ross Sea over the current interglacial period. Since about 3600 years before present, an increase in the efficiency of regional latent-heat polynyas resulted in more coastal sea ice, while sea ice extent decreased overall. These past changes coincide with remarkable optima or minima in the abundances of penguins, silverfish and seal remains, confirming the high sensitivity of marine ecosystems to environmental and especially coastal sea ice conditions.
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