"What do you mean by upper atmosphere?" Stratosphere where the temp is around -50 C.
"I was referring to above the tropopause (we've already been over upper vs lower troposphere as well), I'm not sure why you're bringing latitude into this."
I am not sure if that is supposed to be two separate topics, but since it is a single sentence, I will treat it as one. I brought up both altitude and latitude. They are both arid places that should be affected more by increases in OCO due to the lack of competition from water vapour. That is what was being pushed around 2003 and 2004 because of the increased 2002 and 2003 calving in the Antarctic Peninsula. The amount of calving has decreased since then. Your quote also brought up ozone. Ozone is a green house gas. It is least plentiful in the winter. That ozone is slowly increasing in concentration should allow Antarctica to warm even faster. That Ozone holes still exist in the cold, increasing levels OCO should still be even more important in the winter.
Here is an article from 15 January 2002:
Antarctica overall has cooled measurably during the last 35 years - despite a global average increase in air temperature of 0.06 degrees Celsius during the 20th century - making it unique among the Earth's continental landmasses, according to a paper published today in the online version of Nature.
The lead author of that study does not like how the media, and people like me, interpret his work.
http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/antarctic_cooling.html
He says, "...we indeed stated that a majority -- 58 percent -- of the continent cooled between 1966 and 2000, but let’s not forget the remainder was warming."
According to AGW theory, cold arid regions are supposed to be affected more than warm humid areas like the tropics. That 58% of Antarctica was able to cool is the entire point. That goes against the whole OCO green house gas forcing theory.
He said, "One region, the Antarctic Peninsula, warmed at orders of magnitude more than the global average." That is what was supposed to happen. That it did not apply to the entire continent, and that the trend has been toward cooling for 58% of the continent is significant.
By the way, your first link does not mention Antarctica and you second link does not work.
Did you even read the last 3 links of yours about the 2002-2003 year? They are off topic. The rest of your post looks at only the 1992-2002 decade. As the http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap03/antarctica.html link's last (Standard deviation) graph shows, there seems to be a loose correlation between the Southern Oscillation Index and the south pole temperature. That seems to be all we ever get -- loose correlations.
Here is another link to a page titled, "Antarctic Temperatures of the Past Two Centuries"
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/20061013/20061013_02.html This shows how the 1820s, 1930s, and 1990s saw a warm Antarctica.
