A comparison of climatic change between Svalbard in Arctic and the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Discussion is focused on the characteristics of climatic change in Svalbard for the last 80 a, there the climate tend to be slightly warming. But the decreasing of temperature is an abnormal phenomenon in the background of global temperature increasing since the mid-1970s in Svalbard. By analysis of...

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Main Authors: Shichang, Kang, Tandong, Yao, Dahe, Qin, Yuping, Yan
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Polar Research Institute of China - PRIC 1998
Subjects:
Arctic
Svalbard
Advances in Polar Science
Polar Science
Online Access:http://library.arcticportal.org/2150/
http://library.arcticportal.org/2150/1/A801.005.pdf
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Summary:Discussion is focused on the characteristics of climatic change in Svalbard for the last 80 a, there the climate tend to be slightly warming. But the decreasing of temperature is an abnormal phenomenon in the background of global temperature increasing since the mid-1970s in Svalbard. By analysis of temperature and precipitation at key stations in the last 40 a, it is concluded that in climatic change Svalbard may be compared with the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, though there are differences that are caused by other factors.

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