%0 Journal Article
%T State of the Antartic climate system Excerpts from SASOCS (Mayewski et al. 2009)
%A Mayewski
%A Paul Andrew
%J Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia
%D 2012
%I Universidad de Magallanes
%R 10.4067/S0718-686X2012000100001
%X two recently released reports document the past, present and future predictions for climate over the antarctic and the southern ocean. from these syntheses it is clear that the antarctic plays a critical role in hemispheric to regional climate change and that in recent times human activities are beginning to have a marked impact on antarctic temperature, precipitation, atmospheric circulation, ocean circulation, sea ice extent and chemistry of the atmosphere.
%K antarctica
%K climate change
%K southern ocean.
%U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-686X2012000100001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en