Characteristics of summer airflow over the Antarctic peninsula in response to recent strengthening of westerly circumpolar winds

• Published in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
• Main Authors: Orr, Andrew, Marshall, Gareth J., Hunt, Julian C. R., Sommeria, Joël, Wang, Chang-Gui, Van Lipzig, Nicole, Cresswell, Doug, King, John
• Other Authors: Centre for Polar Observation & Modelling, University College of London London (UCL), British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Laboratoire des Écoulements Géophysiques et Industriels Grenoble (LEGI), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF), Department of Meteorology Reading, University of Reading (UOR), Physical and Regional Geography Research Group, K. U. Leuven
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2008
• Subjects: [PHYS.MECA.MEFL]Physics [physics]/Mechanics [physics]/Fluid mechanics [physics.class-ph]; [SPI.MECA.MEFL]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Mechanics [physics.med-ph]/Fluids mechanics [physics.class-ph]; [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Larsen Ice Shelf; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00351634; https://doi.org/10.1175/2007JAS2498.1

International audience Summer near-surface temperatures over the northeast coast of the Antarctic Peninsula have increased by more than 2↓C over the past 40 years, a temperature increase three times greater than that on the northwest coast. Recent analysis has shown a strong correlation between this...