Towards an increasingly biased view on Arctic change

The Russian invasion of Ukraine hampers the ability to adequately describe conditions across the Arctic, thus biasing the view on Arctic change. Here we benchmark the pan-Arctic representativeness of the largest high-latitude research station network, INTERACT, with or without Russian stations. Excl...

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Published in:Nature Climate Change
Main Authors: López-Blanco, Efrén, Topp-Jørgensen, Elmer, Christensen, Torben R., Rasch, Morten, Skov, Henrik, Arndal, Marie F., Bret-Harte, M. Syndonia, Callaghan, Terry V., Schmidt, Niels M.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Arctic
Climate change
Online Access:https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/publications/ca9f4316-0e94-44e4-b16e-4ea556d4a947
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01903-1
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Summary:The Russian invasion of Ukraine hampers the ability to adequately describe conditions across the Arctic, thus biasing the view on Arctic change. Here we benchmark the pan-Arctic representativeness of the largest high-latitude research station network, INTERACT, with or without Russian stations. Excluding Russian stations lowers representativeness markedly, with some biases being of the same magnitude as the expected shifts caused by climate change by the end of the century.

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