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Raper, SCB, Wigley, TML, Jones, PD 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-5493, Kelly, PM, Mayes, PR and Limbert, DWS
(1983)
Recent temperature changes in the Arctic and Antarctic.
Nature, 306 (5942).
pp. 458-459.
ISSN 0028-0836
Abstract
The possibility of a global warming induced by increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide has led to increased interest in monitoring global temperatures. Polar regions are of particular interest because temperature changes may be amplified in these regions by the complex feedback mechanisms which operate in the atmosphere-ice-ocean system1. Monthly mean station surface air-temperature data have been objectively analysed to produce time series of temperature anomalies for the Northern Hemisphere (1881-1980)2,3, the Arctic (1881-1980)4 and the Antarctic (1957-82)5. A comparison of recent changes in these three regions is made here. Previously published series have been updated to 1982. Changes in Arctic temperatures since about 1966 and in Antarctic temperatures since 1960 show significant warming trends. For the period from 1975 to 1982 there is a high positive correlation between temperature variations in the Arctic and Antarctic.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_below_water |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Rosie Cullington |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jul 2011 10:23 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2024 10:37 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/33385 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/306458a0 |
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