A roadmap for Antarctic and Southern Ocean science for the next two decades and beyond
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Antarctic and Southern Ocean science is vitalt ounderstanding natural variability, the processes that govern global change and the role of humans in the Earth and climate system. Questions were clustered into seven topics: i) Antarcticatmosphereandglobalconnections, ii) SouthernOceanandseaiceinawarmingworld, iii) icesheet andsealevel, iv) thedynamicEarth, v) lifeontheprecipice, vi) near-Earthspaceandbeyond, andvii) human presence in Antarctica. Answering the questions identified by the horizon scan will require innovative experimental designs, novel applications of technology, invention of next -generation field and laboratory approaches, and expanded observing systems and networks