Recent regional climate cooling on the Antarctic Peninsula and associated impacts on the cryosphere
The Antarctic Peninsula (AP) is often described as a region with one of the largest warming trends on Earth since the 1950s, based on the temperature trend of 0.54 °C/decade during 1951–2011 recorded at Faraday/Vernadsky station. Accordingly, most works describing the evolution of the natural system...
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ftlithuaniansrc:oai:elaba:20801911 2023-05-15T13:31:55+02:00 Recent regional climate cooling on the Antarctic Peninsula and associated impacts on the cryosphere Oliva, M. Navarro, F. Hrbáček, F. Hernández, A. Nývlt, D. da Silva Pereira, Paulo Alexandre Ruiz-Fernández, J. Trigo, R. 2017 http://mru.lvb.lt/MRU:ELABAPDB20801911&prefLang=en_US eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.030 http://mru.lvb.lt/MRU:ELABAPDB20801911&prefLang=en_US Science of the total environment, [Amsterdam] : Elsevier, 2017, vol. 580, p. 210-223 ISSN 0048-9697 eISSN 1879-1026 Antarctic Peninsula Climate variability Cooling Cryosphere info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2017 ftlithuaniansrc https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.030 2021-12-02T00:20:47Z The Antarctic Peninsula (AP) is often described as a region with one of the largest warming trends on Earth since the 1950s, based on the temperature trend of 0.54 °C/decade during 1951–2011 recorded at Faraday/Vernadsky station. Accordingly, most works describing the evolution of the natural systems in the AP region cite this extreme trend as the underlying cause of their observed changes. However, a recent analysis (Turner et al., 2016) has shown that the regionally stacked temperature record for the last three decades has shifted from a warming trend of 0.32 °C/decade during 1979–1997 to a cooling trend of − 0.47 °C/decade during 1999–2014. While that study focuses on the period 1979–2014, averaging the data over the entire AP region, we here update and re-assess the spatially-distributed temperature trends and inter-decadal variability from 1950 to 2015, using data from ten stations distributed across the AP region. We show that Faraday/Vernadsky warming trend is an extreme case, circa twice those of the long-term records from other parts of the northern AP. Our results also indicate that the cooling initiated in 1998/1999 has been most significant in the N and NE of the AP and the South Shetland Islands (> 0.5 °C between the two last decades), modest in the Orkney Islands, and absent in the SW of the AP. This recent cooling has already impacted the cryosphere in the northern AP, including slow-down of glacier recession, a shift to surface mass gains of the peripheral glacier and a thinning of the active layer of permafrost in northern AP islands Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula permafrost South Shetland Islands LSRC VL (Lithuanian Social Research Centre Virtual Library) Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Faraday ENVELOPE(-64.256,-64.256,-65.246,-65.246) South Shetland Islands The Antarctic Vernadsky Station ENVELOPE(-64.257,-64.257,-65.245,-65.245) Science of The Total Environment 580 210 223 |
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The Antarctic Peninsula (AP) is often described as a region with one of the largest warming trends on Earth since the 1950s, based on the temperature trend of 0.54 °C/decade during 1951–2011 recorded at Faraday/Vernadsky station. Accordingly, most works describing the evolution of the natural systems in the AP region cite this extreme trend as the underlying cause of their observed changes. However, a recent analysis (Turner et al., 2016) has shown that the regionally stacked temperature record for the last three decades has shifted from a warming trend of 0.32 °C/decade during 1979–1997 to a cooling trend of − 0.47 °C/decade during 1999–2014. While that study focuses on the period 1979–2014, averaging the data over the entire AP region, we here update and re-assess the spatially-distributed temperature trends and inter-decadal variability from 1950 to 2015, using data from ten stations distributed across the AP region. We show that Faraday/Vernadsky warming trend is an extreme case, circa twice those of the long-term records from other parts of the northern AP. Our results also indicate that the cooling initiated in 1998/1999 has been most significant in the N and NE of the AP and the South Shetland Islands (> 0.5 °C between the two last decades), modest in the Orkney Islands, and absent in the SW of the AP. This recent cooling has already impacted the cryosphere in the northern AP, including slow-down of glacier recession, a shift to surface mass gains of the peripheral glacier and a thinning of the active layer of permafrost in northern AP islands |
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Oliva, M. Navarro, F. Hrbáček, F. Hernández, A. Nývlt, D. da Silva Pereira, Paulo Alexandre Ruiz-Fernández, J. Trigo, R. |
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Recent regional climate cooling on the Antarctic Peninsula and associated impacts on the cryosphere |
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Recent regional climate cooling on the Antarctic Peninsula and associated impacts on the cryosphere |
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Recent regional climate cooling on the Antarctic Peninsula and associated impacts on the cryosphere |
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Recent regional climate cooling on the Antarctic Peninsula and associated impacts on the cryosphere |
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Recent regional climate cooling on the Antarctic Peninsula and associated impacts on the cryosphere |
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Science of the total environment, [Amsterdam] : Elsevier, 2017, vol. 580, p. 210-223 ISSN 0048-9697 eISSN 1879-1026 |
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