%0 Journal Article %T Detection and attribution of Antarctic climate change %A Bracegirdle %A Thomas J %J Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia %D 2012 %I Universidad de Magallanes %R 10.4067/S0718-686X2012000100005 %X the current understanding of climate changes that have occurred in the last 50 years over antarctica is presented with a focus on: (i) a summer warming of the eastern antarctic peninsula, which caused the collapse of the larsen b ice shelf, (ii) the observed significant increase of total sea ice extent and (iii) an anthropogenic ¡®fingerprint¡¯ in the antarctic-wide temperature change pattern. the implications of this for predictions of the future are discussed. %K detection and attribution %K antarctic %K climate %K ozone hole %K sea ice. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-686X2012000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en