North and Tropical Atlantic Ocean Bringing Climate Change to Antarctica (IMAGE)

New York University

North and Tropical Atlantic Ocean Bringing Climate Change to Antarctica

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The gradual warming of the North and Tropical Atlantic Ocean is contributing to climate change in Antarctica, a team of NYU scientists has concluded. The findings, which rely on more than three decades of atmospheric data, show new ways in which distant regional conditions are contributing to Antarctic climate change. Below, several glaciers in the Antarctic Peninsula pass between sharp mountain peaks and converge in a single calving front, as seen by Operation IceBridge while returning from a survey of the Ronne Ice Shelf on Nov. 1, 2012. NASA's Operation IceBridge is an airborne science mission to study Earth's polar ice. For more information about IceBridge, visit: www.nasa.gov/icebridge.

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Photograph By: Jefferson Beck/NASA IceBridge, National Science Foundation

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