Will Hobbs

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: The Amundsen Sea Low (ASL) is a climatological low pressure center that exerts considerable influence on the climate of West Antarctica as mentioned in this paper, and its potential to explain important recent changes in Antarctic climate, for example in temperature and sea ice extent, means that it has become the focus of an increasing number of studies.

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: In this paper, satellite data for the past three decades reveal a record-high sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly within a large mid-latitude region of the south-central Pacific (SCP) during the mature phase of the 2009-10 El Nino, with a peak magnitude that is 5 times the standard deviation of local SST anomaly and is warmer than the concurrent tropical-Pacific SST anomalies.