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The central role of diminishing sea ice in recent Arctic temperature amplification [1]

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.

Publication Date: 
29/04/2010
James A. Screen [2], Ian Simmonds [3]
Nature [4]
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Climate Change [5], Climate Science [6], Global Warming [7], Arctic [8]
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