Phillip Reid

TL;DR: Over an 11-year time-series, this study examines how inter-annual variability in sea ice concentration and advance affect the foraging behaviour of a top Antarctic predator, the southern elephant seal.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present data collected during the past ten years, and review major findings such as differences in regional and seasonal snow properties and thicknesses; the unique consequences of snow on Antarctic pack ice relative to the Arctic (e.g. the importance of flooding and snow-ice formation); the potential impact if global change increases snowfall; lower observed values of snow thermal conductivity than those used in models; periodic large-scale melt in winter; and the contrast in summer melt in the Antarctic and Arctic.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize the research to date on observing these trends, identifying their drivers, and assessing the role of anthropogenic climate change in Antarctic sea ice cover, concluding that the expected response is small compared to the very high natural variability of the system.

TL;DR: The State of the Climate for 2013 as discussed by the authors is a very low-resolution file and it can be downloaded in a few minutes for a high-resolution version of the report to download.

TL;DR: It is shown that for the disintegration events observed, the increased seasonal absence of a protective sea ice buffer enabled increased flexure of vulnerable outer ice shelf margins by ocean swells that probably weakened them to the point of calving.