Dominant role of vertical air flows in the unprecedented warming on the Antarctic Peninsula in February 2020

• Published in: Communications Earth & Environment
• Main Authors: Xu, Min, Yu, Lejiang, Liang, Kaixin, Vihma, Timo, Bozkurt, Deniz, Hu, Xiaoming, Yang, Qinghua
• Other Authors: the National Natural Science Foundation of China
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Environmental Science; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Drake Passage; Pacific; Esperanza; Esperanza Station; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00203-w; http://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00203-w.pdf; http://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00203-w

Abstract Near-surface air temperature at the Argentinian research base Esperanza on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula reached 18.3 °C on 6 February 2020, which is the highest temperature ever recorded on the entire Antarctic continent. Here we use weather observations since 1973 together w...