Global warming at the poles
In the past decade, new observational platforms and improved modelling of the polar climate systems have led to a quantification of recent Arctic and Antarctic climate changes and to a tentative suggestion of causality. A mounting body of literature indicates that the changes in Arctic and Antarctic...
| Published in: | Nature Geoscience |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2008
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| Online Access: | http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/collections/OSGC-000-000-001-886 https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo346 |
| Summary: | In the past decade, new observational platforms and improved modelling of the polar climate systems have led to a quantification of recent Arctic and Antarctic climate changes and to a tentative suggestion of causality. A mounting body of literature indicates that the changes in Arctic and Antarctic climate are consistent with the human-induced warming that is occurring globally. On page 750 of this issue, Gillett and colleagues1 use an innovative attribution technique and simulations from several state-of-the-art global climate models to disentangle the internal and external forcing mechanisms that have contributed to the recently observed variability in near-surface air temperature near the poles. |
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