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[143] highlights Despite some colder than average years, the overall effects of a preponderence of years of relatively warm surface temperatures during the last three decades were particularly apparent in coastal areas in the Gulf of Alaska during the focus period. Rapid recession of most glaciers,...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.188.1007 http://www.pices.int/publications/special_publications/NPESR/2010/PICES_PUB4_Chp4_Alaska.pdf |
| Summary: | [143] highlights Despite some colder than average years, the overall effects of a preponderence of years of relatively warm surface temperatures during the last three decades were particularly apparent in coastal areas in the Gulf of Alaska during the focus period. Rapid recession of most glaciers, emergence of new coastal land and displacement of tide lands in response to the loss of glacial mass, larger than usual swings in precipitation, freshwater runoff, winds, and coastal storms in the last few years are all consistent with the effects of climate change anticipated in coastal Alaska. Marine areas showed the effects of a move from very warm to very cold conditions. Pronounced annual changes in widely used indicators of climate and ocean conditions emphasized the instability of atmospheric and oceanographic conditions during the focus period. Warm years in 2003 – 2005 were followed by cold years in 2007 – 2008. Although sea surface temperatures in 2004 and 2005 were among the warmest on record, the water column in the north central Gulf |
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