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The Science Themes of AGCS
The programme has four major, closely linked themes of research:
- Theme 1. Decadal time scale variability in the Antarctic climate system, which will investigate ocean-atmosphere coupling, the role played by radiative processes and the role of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation in modulating the Antarctic climate. Leader David Bromwich
- Theme 2. Global and regional climate signals in ice cores to establish better quantitative relationships between ice core data and measures of tropical, mid- and high latitude climate variability. Leader Paul Mayewski
- Theme 3. Natural and anthropogenic forcing on the Antarctic climate system, including the production of regional-scale estimates of expected climate change over Antarctica during the next 100 years. Leader John Turner
- Theme 4. The export of Antarctic climate signals, to examine the means by which climate changes in the Antarctic can influence conditions at more northerly latitudes. Leader Alberto Naveira Garabarto
Last updated 14 January 2009
Dr John Turner, British Antarctic Survey (J.Turner@bas.ac.uk)