Long-term temperature trends and variability on spitsbergen: The extended svalbard airport temperature series, 1898-2012

Polar Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1 SUPPL, 2014, Pages

  Nordli, Øyvind ^a   Przybylak, Rajmund ^b   Ogilvie, Astrid E J ^c   Isaksen, Ketil ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Homogenization; Spitsbergen; Svalbard; Temperature records; Temperature trends

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; HOMOGENEITY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TREND ANALYSIS; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING;

ARCTIC; EUROPE; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84896350535     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/polar.v33.21349     Document Type: Article

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