2011: Winter warming in West Antarctica caused by central tropical Pacific warming

substantial warming in the past 30 years. An increase in the circumpolar westerlies, owing in part to the decline in stratospheric ozone concentrations since the late 1970s, may account for warming trends in the peninsula region in austral summer and autumn. The more widespread warming in continenta...

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Main Authors: Qinghua Ding, Eric J. Steig, David S. Battisti, Marcel Küttel
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.459.8689
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~david/ding_etal_2011.pdf