Significant warming of the Antarctic winter troposphere

Turner, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6111-5122; Lachlan-Cope, T.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0657-3235; Colwell, S.R.; Marshall, G.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8887-7314; Connolley, W.M.. 2006 Significant warming of the Antarctic winter troposphere. Science, 311 (5769). 1914-1917. 10.1126/science.1121652

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Abstract/Summary

We report an undocumented major warming of the Antarctic winter troposphere that is larger than any previously identified regional tropospheric warming on Earth. This result has come to light through an analysis of recently digitized and rigorously quality controlled Antarctic radiosonde observations. The data show that regional midtropospheric temperatures have increased at a statistically significant rate of 0.5° to 0.7°Celsius per decade over the past 30 years. Analysis of the time series of radiosonde temperatures indicates that the data are temporally homogeneous. The available data do not allow us to unambiguously assign a cause to the tropospheric warming at this stage.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1126/science.1121652
Programmes:	BAS Programmes > Global Science in the Antarctic Context (2005-2009) > Antarctic Climate and the Earth System
ISSN:	0036-8075
Format Availability:	Electronic, Print
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Full text not available from this repository
Additional Keywords:	Climate change
NORA Subject Terms:	Meteorology and Climatology
Date made live:	24 Jul 2007 11:01 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/144

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