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Several factors, such as ocean acidification, increasing wind strength and changes in ocean circulation in the Southern Ocean, may affect the base of Antarctic food webs
2016 Key Finding... acidification, increasing wind strength and changes in ocean circulation in the Southern Ocean, may affect the base of Antarctic food webs ...
Antarctica is warming, although changes in atmospheric circulation brought about by the Antarctic ozone hole have been a temporary mitigating factor that has reduced the overall amount of warming, primarily in summer
2016 Key Finding Antarctica is warming, although changes in atmospheric circulation brought about by the Antarctic ozone hole have been a temporary ...
Global importance of Antarctica
2016 Report Content... basins (Atlantic, Pacific and Indian) and creates a global circulation system that is largely driven by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current ... flows from west to east around Antarctica and generates an overturning circulation that transports vast amounts of heat. The ACC also ...
State and trends of the Southern Ocean
2016, 2011 Assessment summary... in volume, and this has likely influenced large-scale circulation. Changes in patterns in sea ice formation and melting may influence shallow overturning near the continent Year(s): 2016 3 Deteriorating Confidence (in ...
Risks to the Antarctic environment 2016
2016 At a glance... et al. 2008 ). For the Southern Ocean, the process of overturning circulation (where deep water upwells and releases CO 2 to the atmosphere) is ...
Major regional changes are occurring in Antarctic sea ice coverage
2016 Key Finding... attributed to changing patterns of large-scale atmospheric circulation. In the western Antarctic Peninsula region, there is mounting ...
Box HER12 Rocla Quarry, Calga, New South Wales
2016 Case StudyThe Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council and other objectors to an approved sand quarry expansion at Calga in New South Wales successfully overturned the approval on appeal to the New South Wales Land and Environment Court. The court’s decision to refuse the expansion...
The physical environment: The atmosphere—climate and weather patterns
2016 Report Content... and climate, and influences the large-scale patterns of circulation at all layers in the atmosphere. Interactions between the ... NL & Hobbs WR (2016). Southern Ocean: sea-ice-driven shallow overturning. Nature Geoscience 9(8):569–570. Stan J, Jenkins A, Hellmer H, ...
The physical environment: The Southern Ocean
2016 Report Content... ice formation and melting are important drivers of shallow overturning, and changes in sea ice extent may play a role in future changes in circulation near the continent ( Bindoff & Hobbs 2016 ). Increased ocean heat ...
The physical environment: The cryosphere
2016 Report Content... There are also possible flow-on effects on global ocean circulation and marine ecosystems. Methods for measuring ice mass changes for ... NL & Hobbs WR (2016). Southern Ocean: sea-ice-driven shallow overturning. Nature Geoscience 9(8):569–570. Stan J, Jenkins A, Hellmer H, ...
Approach - Land 2016
2016 Report Content2016 Land This report takes a broadly similar approach to the Land chapter in the 2011 state of the environment report (SoE 2011; SoE Committee 2011), and is intended to be an update of that material. A significant addition in 2016 is an attempt to...
Introduction 2016
2016 At a glanceAntarctica is the southernmost continent. Including all islands and ice shelves, it covers an area of about 13.9 million square kilometres (km2)—nearly twice that of Australia. The sea ice that surrounds Antarctica adds about another 19 million km2 at its maximum extent in September–October...
Executive Summary - Antarctic environment
2016 Executive Summary... a link between the ozone hole and changes in atmospheric circulation over Antarctica, the response of the Southern Ocean and Antarctic ...
State and trends of the Antarctic environment 2016
2016 At a glance... changes are also being influenced by shifts in atmospheric circulation as a result of stratosphere cooling through ozone depletion and ...
Climate change
2016 , Report Content... associated with large-scale changes in atmospheric circulation.
Climate change
Climate change
Climate change poses a ... associated with large-scale changes in atmospheric circulation. Box ATM16 Air quality issues identified by jurisdictions as ...
Pressures on Indigenous heritage
2016 Report Content2016 Heritage Pressures Tasmania Timor Sea Greater Sydney There is a recognised gap between Indigenous Australians and the wider Australian...
Risks to biodiversity 2016
2016 At a glance... in other countries Major interactions between altered ocean circulation and ocean acidification, drastically modifying marine ecosystems ...
Outlook for the Antarctic environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceCurrently, the Antarctic environment is still in a comparatively good condition. However, the pressures on the continent and the surrounding ocean will increase. For example, the extraction of marine resources is not only going to continue but will intensify in the future. Most...
Marine regions
2016 Report Content... from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean. This seasonal circulation pattern broadly follows the contours of the Australian coastline ... Forbes AMG & Church JA (1983). Circulation in the Gulf of Carpentaria. II. Residual currents and mean sea ... Geoscience Australia, Canberra. Schiller A (2011). Ocean circulation on the North Australian Shelf. Continental Shelf ...
Marine environment: 2011–16 in context
2016 Report Content... description of ENSO). Variation in ocean temperatures and circulation associated with the La Niña event, superimposed on rising ocean ... description of ENSO ). Variation in ocean temperatures and circulation associated with the La Niña event, superimposed on rising ocean ...
Climate change
2016 Report Content... these are associated with changes in the global atmospheric circulation … pushing mid-latitude storm tracks further south and leading to ...
Temperature
2016 , Report Content... months of October and November—was in large part caused by circulation changes because of the upwards trend in oceanic temperatures in ...
Climate change
2016 Report Content... Throughflow, a major component of the global ocean circulation that moves water between the Pacific and Indian oceans the Leeuwin ... temperature and salinity transport of the currents, and circulation on the continental shelf ( Ridgway 2007 , Holbrook et al. 2012 , ...
Marine debris
2016 Report Content... difficulties in surveillance and enforcement, and ocean circulation and wind patterns that appear to promote accumulation of floating ... difficulties in surveillance and enforcement, and ocean circulation and wind patterns that appear to promote accumulation of floating ...
Pressures on the marine environment
2016 Report Content... climate change on various levels of production, and on ocean circulation and chemistry are still unclear. These uncertainties limit the ...
The living environment: Marine and terrestrial
2016 Report Content... environments
The climate of the Southern Ocean and its circulation play a central part in the global carbon cycle ( IPCC 2013 ). The ...
State and trends in indicators of marine ecosystem health
2016, 2011 Assessment summary... causes an intensification of the Southern Ocean supergyre circulation.
Geophysical Research Letters
, L03712. Carranza & Gille 2015 ...
Pressures affecting the marine environment
2016, 2011 Assessment summary... as a result of changes in the large-scale ocean gyre circulation and major climate drivers Year(s): 2016 2 Deteriorating ...
Global importance of Antarctica
2011 Report Content... basins (Atlantic, Pacific and Indian) and creates a global circulation system that is largely driven by the eastward flowing Antarctic ... - the world's largest current. The current generates an overturning circulation (movement of water masses of different densities caused ...
7 Antarctic environment | 6 Risks to the Antarctic environment
2011 At a glance... ocean per hour. 229 For the Southern Ocean, the process of overturning circulation (where deep water upwells and releases carbon dioxide to the ...
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