Recent observations of a spring-summer surface warming over the Arctic Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1259-1262

  Martin, Seelye ^a,b   Munoz, Esther ^a,b   Drucker, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COOLING; GEOPHYSICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ANOMALY FIELDS; ARCTIC OCEAN; SPRING SUMMER SURFACE WARMING; TREND ANALYSIS;

GLOBAL WARMING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; REGIONAL WEATHER PATTERN; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0031148508     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01126     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Chapman, W. L., and J. E. Walsh, Recent variations of sea ice and air temperature in high latitudes, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 74(1), 33-47, 1993.
2. Colony, R., I. Appel, and I. Rigor, Surface air temperature observations in the Arctic Basin, Tech. Memo. TM 1-92, 120 pp., Appl. Phys. Lab., Univ. of Wash., Seattle, 1992.
3. Draper, N., and H. Smith, Applied Regression Analysis, 709 pp., John Wiley, New York, 1981.
4. Johannessen, O. M, Miles, M., and E. Bjorgo, The Arctic's shrinking sea ice, Nature, 376, 126-127, 1995.
5. Jones, P. D., Temperature change in the Arctic and Antarctic from instrumental and high frequency paleoclimatic (since 1400) reconstructions, in Wadi Conference on Global Change and the Polar Climate, 5-8 (available from the Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tenoudai, Tsukuba 305, Japan), 1995.
6. Kahl, J. D., D. J. Charlevoix, N. A. Zaitseva, R. C. Schnell, and M. C. Serreze, Absence of evidence for greenhouse warming over the Arctic Ocean in the past 40 years, Nature, 361, 335-337, 1993.
7. 2. Part II: seasonal response, J. Clim., 5, 105-126, 1992.
8. Maslanik, J. A., M. C. Serreze, and R. G. Barry, Recent decreases in Arctic summer ice cover and linkages to atmospheric circulation anomalies, Geophys. Res. Letts., 23, 1677-1680, 1996.
9. Martin, S., and E. A. Munoz, Properties of the Arctic 2-m air tempera-ture for 1979-present derived from a new gridded data set, J. Clim. (in press), 1997.
10. Serreze, M. C., J. A. Maslanik, J. R. Key, and R. F. Kokaly, Diagnosis of the record minimum in Arctic sea ice area during 1990 and associated snow cover extremes, Geophys. Res. Letts. 22(16), 2183-2186, 1995.
11. Taylor, J. R., An Introduction to Error Analysis, 270 pp., University Science Books, Mill Valley, Calif., 1982.
12. Walsh, J. E., The elusive Arctic warming, Nature, 361, 300-301, 1993.