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TitleThe Ross Sea Dipole-temperature, snow accumulation and sea ice variability in the Ross Sea region, Antarctica, over the past 2700 yearsAbstractHigh-resolution, well-dated climate archives provide an opportunity to investigate the dynamic interactions of climate patterns relevant for future projections. Here, we present data from a new, annually dated ice core record from the eastern Ross Sea, named the Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) ice core. Comparison of this record with climate reanalysis data for the 1979-2012 interval shows that RICE reliably captures temperature and snow precipitation variability in the region. Trends over the past 2700 years in RICE are shown to be distinct from those in West Antarctica and the western Ross Sea captured by other ice cores. For most of this interval, the eastern Ross Sea was warming (or showing isotopic enrichment for other reasons), with increased snow accumulation and perhaps decreased sea ice concentration. However, West Antarctica cooled and the western Ross Sea showed no significant isotope temperature trend. This pattern here is referred to as the Ross Sea Dipole. Notably, during the Little Ice Age, West Antarctica and the western Ross Sea experienced colder than average temperatures, while the eastern Ross Sea underwent a period of warming or increased isotopic enrichment. From the 17th century onwards, this dipole relationship changed. All three regions show current warming, with snow accumulation declining in West Antarctica and the eastern Ross Sea but increasing in the western Ross Sea. We interpret this pattern as reflecting an increase in sea ice in the eastern Ross Sea with perhaps the establishment of a modern Roosevelt Island polynya as a local moisture source for RICE. Â© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.Funding DetailsRDF-VUW-1103, Victoria University of Wellington; 15-VUW-131, Victoria University of Wellington; K049, Antarctica New Zealand; BAS, British Antarctic Survey; UCSD, University of California, San Diego; ANT-0944021; ANT-0944307; ANT-1443472; BAS, British Antarctic Survey; 540GCT12; 540GCT32; Rice University; 2013CBA01804; MSI, Ministry of Science and Innovation, New Zealand; Core; MBIE, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment; ANT-1543305, UW, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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1st AuthorBertler N.A.N.AuthorBertler N.A.N.Conway H.Dahl-Jensen, D.Emannuelsson, D.B.Winstrup, M.Vallelonga, P.T.Lee, J.EBrook, E.J.Severinghaus, J.P.Fudge, T.J.Keller, E.D.Troy Baisden, W.Hindmarsh, R.C.A.Neff, P.D.Blunier, T. Edwards, R.Mayewski, P.A. Kipfstuhl, S.Buizert, C.Canessa, S.Dadic, R.Kjær, H.A.Kurbatov, A.Zhang, D.Waddington, E.Baccolo, G.Beers, T.Brightley, H.Carter, L.Clemens-Sewall, D.Ciobanu, V.Delmonte, B.Eling, L.Ellis, A.Ganesh, S.Golledge, N.Haines, S.Handley, M.Hawley, R.Hogan, C.Johnson, K.Korotkikh, E.Lowry, D.Mandeno, D.McKay, R.Menking, J.Naish, T.Noerling, C.Ollive, A.Orsi, A.Proemse, B.Pyne, A.Pyne, R.Renwick, J.Scherer, R.Semper, S.Simonsen, M.Sneed, S.Steig, E.Tuohy, A.Ulayottil Venugopal, A.Valero-Delgado, F.Venkatesh, J.Wang, F.Wang, S.Winski, D.Holly, W.Whiteford, A.Xiao, C.Yang, J.Zhang, X.Year2018JournalClimate of the PastVolume14Number2Pages193-214DOI10.5194/cp-14-193-2018URLhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/recor.....0f3209aee5077371d62c02d3bPublisherCopernicus GmbHKeywordsclimate variationice coreLittle Ice Agepaleoclimatepolynyaprecipitation (climatology)sea icesnow accumulation, AntarcticaRoosevelt Island [West Antarctica]Ross SeaSouthern OceanWest Antarctica

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CitationBertler N.A.N., Buizert, C., Canessa, S., Dadic, R., Kjaer, H., Kurbatov, A., Zhang, D., Waddington, E., Baccolo, G., Beers, T., Brightley, H., Carter, L., Clemens-Sewall, D., Ciobanu, V., Delmonte, B., Eling, L., Ellis, A., Ganesh, S., Golledge, N., Haines, S., Handley, M., Hawley, R., Hogan, C., Johnson, K., Korotkikh, E., Lowry, D., Mandeno, D., McKay, R., Menking, J., Naish, T., Noerling, C., Ollive, A., Orsi, A., Proemse, B., Pyne, A., Pyne, R., Renwick, J., Scherer, R., Semper, S., Simonsen, M., Sneed, S., Steig, E., Tuohy, A., Ulayottil Venugopal, A., Valero-Delgado, F., Venkatesh, J., Wang, F., Wang, S., Winski, D., Holly, W., Whiteford, A., Xiao, C., Yang, J. and Zhang, X. (2018). The Ross Sea Dipole-temperature, snow accumulation and sea ice variability in the Ross Sea region, Antarctica, over the past 2700 years. Climate of the Past, 14(2): 193-214