The heat is on in Antarctica
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Title:
The heat is on in Antarctica
Series Title:
Nature Geoscience Volume 6 Climate Science
Creator:
Steig, Eric J.
Orsi, Anais J.
Publisher:
Macmillan Publishers Limited
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Language:
English

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Climate Change ( lcsh )
Antarctica ( lcsh )
Global Warming ( lcsh )
Antarctic Peninsula (Antarctica) ( lcsh )

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Abstract:
The ice-covered continent of Antarctica seems to have been sitting on the sidelines when it comes to global warming. Certainly, the Antarctic Peninsula (a relatively small area of land that juts northwards from the main Antarctic continent towards South America) has been warming rapidly for the better part of a century. However, the Antarctic Peninsula has been thought to be an anomaly, with the rest of Antarctica isolated from the influence of climatic changes at more northerly latitudes. Writing in Nature Geoscience, David Bromwich et al.1 show that central West Antarctica — some 1500 km inland from the Peninsula — has warmed over the past five decades at a rate rivalling that of any other location on Earth. ( English )

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