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Antarctic circumpolar current (Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service, Australia)

Describes the Antarctic circumpolar current and its effect on climate change
http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/fahan_mi_shipwrecks/infohut/acc.htm

BLUElink> Ocean forecasting Australia

• What’s to see in the ocean?
  Provides an introduction to the importance of oceans.
  http://www.marine.csiro.au/bluelink/related/whatstosee.htm

• Observing the oceans around Australia
  Describes ocean monitoring around Australia and its applications.
  http://www.marine.csiro.au/bluelink/related/oberving.htm

Sea level rise (CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia)

A website with information on sea level rise, its causes and estimates of global and regional sea levels.
http://www.cmar.csiro.au/sealevel/index.html

Australian Antarctic Division

• The global jigsaw
  Discusses the role of Antarctica in global processes.
  http://www.aad.gov.au/Asset/looksouth/pdfs/c5.pdf

• Ice shelves
  Provides information on Ice cores and how they are used to measure climate change and volcanic eruptions that alter the atmosphere.
  http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=1708

• The Southern Ocean's global reach
  Describes the Southern ocean storage and transport of heat, moisture and carbon dioxide and its influence on the Earth's climate system.
  http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=4267

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (transcripts)

• Indian Ocean – influence on Australia's climate (The Science Show, 30 September 2006)
  Discusses how the Indian Ocean influences the climate over the whole of Australia.
  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2006/1751859.htm#

• Deep ocean currents (The Science Show, 20 May 2000)
  Describes how the ocean acts as a conveyer belt and explains how deep water currents are formed.
  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s131912.htm

• Catching up with us: Global warming and the oceans (Quantum, 26 March 1998)
  Features the role of oceans, particularly the Southern Ocean, in climate change.
  http://www.abc.net.au/quantum/scripts98/9802/feature.htm

Stories in the ice – nature's time machine (Public Broadcasting Service, USA)

Documents events in the Earth's history using an ice core timeline.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/warnings/stories/

Antarctica – in from the cold? (On Line Opinion, 15 January 2002, Australia)

Dr Michael Stoddart, from the Australian Antarctic Division, explains how Antarctica influences climate and ocean circulation.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=1201

Antarctic Region (University of Texas, USA)

A clear map of the Antarctic region. Shows the location of the major ice shelves and the average minimum extent of sea-ice.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/islands_oceans_poles/antarctic_pol97.jpg

A disintegrating glacier (Science@NASA, USA)

An Australian researcher has discovered that a large glacier tongue on the Antarctic coast has disintegrated.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast05dec_1.htm?list153136