Presentation given at the PAGES symposium in Chile in October 2010. (NB I gave this talk before O'Donnell et al. was published so I'd probably do it differently now.)

1. Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation: impacts on Antarctic climate and reconstructions from Antarctic ice core data Andrew Russell 1 and Glenn McGregor 2 1 Institute for the Environment, Brunel University, UK. 2 School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand [email_address]

2. Acknowledgements Scientific Committee, Valdivia PAGES 2010 Gareth Marshall , British Antarctic Survey Rob Mulvaney , British Antarctic Survey

4. Antarctic temperature trends

5. Turner et al. (2005) “Antarctic climate change during the last 50 years” International Journal of Climatology 25 , 279-294.

6. Steig et al. (2009) “Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year” Nature 457 , 459-462.

7. The impact of atmospheric circulation on Antarctic climate

10. The Southern Annular Mode http://www.niwa.co.nz

11. The Southern Annular Mode http://www.niwa.co.nz

12. Negative SAM index

13. Positive SAM index

14. Changes in the Southern Annular Mode IPCC (2007)

15. Changes in the Southern Annular Mode Gillett and Thompson (2003) Simulation of recent Southern Hemisphere climate change. Science, 302, 273–275. Thompson and Solomon (2002) Interpretation of recent Southern Hemisphere climate change. Science, 296, 895–899. IPCC (2007) Marshall (2003)

16. Atmospheric circulation reconstructions from Antarctic ice cores

17. Legrand and Kirchner (1988) “Polar atmospheric circulation and chemistry of recent (1957–1983) south polar precipitation” Geophysical Research Letters 15 , 879–882. Winter [Na]

18. Kreutz and Mayewski (1999) “Spatial variability of Antarctic surface snow glaciochemistry: implications for paleoatmospheric circulation reconstruction”. Antarctic Science 11 , 105–118. EOF(Siple Dome) ASL

19. MJJ [Na] Goodwin et al. (2004) “Mid latitude climate variability in the South Indian and South-West Pacific regions since 1300 AD”. Climate Dynamics , 22 , 783–794.

20. MJJ [Na] Goodwin et al. (2004) “Mid latitude climate variability in the South Indian and South-West Pacific regions since 1300 AD”. Climate Dynamics , 22 , 783–794.

22. Russell et al. (2008) ASL