Climate change does not occur uniformly around the world: instead, in a process called polar amplification, the Arctic warms more rapidly than the tropics or mid-latitudes. Recent work published in Nature suggested that upper-atmospheric transport processes accounted for much of the recent polar amplification, but this conclusion proved controversial.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/central-role-diminishing-sea-ice-recent-arctic-temperature-amplification
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/james-screen
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/ian-simmonds
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/nature
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-science
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global-warming
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/arctic