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Antarctica and surrounding regions will have global consequences as a result of climate change. It is relentless to understand how the anthropogenic climate change will affect the vast continent and surrounding ocean, but for the impacts such as sea-level rise accurate projections must be prepared. A thorough understanding of the causes and effects of climate change and the duration and rates of change is required involving the integration of observational and modelling knowledge from Earth systems.
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Choudhary, S., Khare, N. (2022). Climate Change Over the Antarctic and the Southern Ocean and Its Impact and Bearing on the Global Climate System. In: Khare, N. (eds) Assessing the Antarctic Environment from a Climate Change Perspective. Earth and Environmental Sciences Library. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87078-2_3
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