Antarctica and the Global Climate System  Project Description
AGCS is a major research programme to investigate the nature of
the atmospheric and oceanic linkages between the climate of the
Antarctic and the rest of the Earth system, and the mechanisms
involved therein.  The programme makes use of existing deep and
shallow ice cores, satellite data, the output of global and
regional coupled atmosphere-ocean climate models and in-situ
meteorological and oceanic data to understand the means by which
signals of tropical and mid-latitude climate variability reach
the Antarctic, and high latitude climate signals are exported
northwards.  It has four major, closely linked themes of
research dealing with decadal time scale variability in the
Antarctic climate system, global and regional climate signals in
ice cores, natural and anthropogenic forcing on the Antarctic
climate system and the export of Antarctic climate signals.