Long-term temperature trends and variability on Spitsbergen: the extended Svalbard Airport temperature series, 1898-2012
One of the few long instrumental records available for the Arctic is the Svalbard Airport composite series that hitherto began in 1911, with observations made on Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard Archipelago. This record has now been extended to 1898 with the inclusion of observations...
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ftjpolarres:oai:journals.openacademia.net:article/3200 2024-09-09T19:23:03+00:00 Long-term temperature trends and variability on Spitsbergen: the extended Svalbard Airport temperature series, 1898-2012 Nordli, Øyvind Przybylak, Rajmund Ogilvie, Astrid E.J. Isaksen, Ketil 2014-01-22 application/pdf text/html application/epub+zip text/plain https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3200 https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v33.21349 eng eng Norwegian Polar Institute https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3200/pdf_1 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3200/html https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3200/epub https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3200/xml https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3200/8037 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3200 doi:10.3402/polar.v33.21349 Polar Research; Vol 33 (2014) 1751-8369 Arctic homogenization Spitsbergen Svalbard temperature records temperature trends info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2014 ftjpolarres https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v33.21349 2024-06-20T23:33:17Z One of the few long instrumental records available for the Arctic is the Svalbard Airport composite series that hitherto began in 1911, with observations made on Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard Archipelago. This record has now been extended to 1898 with the inclusion of observations made by hunting and scientific expeditions. Temperature has been observed almost continuously in Svalbard since 1898, although at different sites. It has therefore been possible to create one composite series for Svalbard Airport covering the period 1898–2012, and this valuable new record is presented here. The series reveals large temperature variability on Spitsbergen, with the early 20th century warming as one striking feature: an abrupt change from the cold 1910s to the local maxima of the 1930s and 1950s. With the inclusion of the new data it is possible to show that the 1910s were colder than the years at the start of the series. From the 1960s, temperatures have increased, so the present temperature level is significantly higher than at any earlier period in the instrumental history. For the entire period, and for all seasons, there are positive, statistically significant trends. Regarding the annual mean, the total trend is 2.6°C/century, whereas the largest trend is in spring, at 3.9°C/century. In Europe, it is the Svalbard Archipelago that has experienced the greatest temperature increase during the latest three decades. The composite series may be downloaded from the home page of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and should be used with reference to the present article.Keywords: Arctic; homogenization; Spitsbergen; Svalbard; temperature records; temperature trends.(Published: 22 January 2014)To access the supplementary material for this article, please see Supplementary files in the column to the right (under Article Tools).Citation: Polar Research 2014, 33, 21349, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v33.21349 Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Polar Research Svalbard Spitsbergen Polar Research Arctic Svalbard Svalbard Archipelago Polar Research 33 1 21349 |
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One of the few long instrumental records available for the Arctic is the Svalbard Airport composite series that hitherto began in 1911, with observations made on Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard Archipelago. This record has now been extended to 1898 with the inclusion of observations made by hunting and scientific expeditions. Temperature has been observed almost continuously in Svalbard since 1898, although at different sites. It has therefore been possible to create one composite series for Svalbard Airport covering the period 1898–2012, and this valuable new record is presented here. The series reveals large temperature variability on Spitsbergen, with the early 20th century warming as one striking feature: an abrupt change from the cold 1910s to the local maxima of the 1930s and 1950s. With the inclusion of the new data it is possible to show that the 1910s were colder than the years at the start of the series. From the 1960s, temperatures have increased, so the present temperature level is significantly higher than at any earlier period in the instrumental history. For the entire period, and for all seasons, there are positive, statistically significant trends. Regarding the annual mean, the total trend is 2.6°C/century, whereas the largest trend is in spring, at 3.9°C/century. In Europe, it is the Svalbard Archipelago that has experienced the greatest temperature increase during the latest three decades. The composite series may be downloaded from the home page of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and should be used with reference to the present article.Keywords: Arctic; homogenization; Spitsbergen; Svalbard; temperature records; temperature trends.(Published: 22 January 2014)To access the supplementary material for this article, please see Supplementary files in the column to the right (under Article Tools).Citation: Polar Research 2014, 33, 21349, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v33.21349 |
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Long-term temperature trends and variability on Spitsbergen: the extended Svalbard Airport temperature series, 1898-2012 |
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Long-term temperature trends and variability on Spitsbergen: the extended Svalbard Airport temperature series, 1898-2012 |
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Long-term temperature trends and variability on Spitsbergen: the extended Svalbard Airport temperature series, 1898-2012 |
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