Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Atmospheric Turbidity and Surface Temperature on the Polar Ice Sheets

  • Letter
  • Published:

From Nature

View current issue Submit your manuscript

Abstract

DATA relevant to the causation of climatic change, particularly changes in mean annual temperature at the surface over intervals of from 10 to 105 yr, have been accumulating gradually in various laboratories engaged in studying the two long ice cores from Camp Century, Greenland, and “New” Byrd Station, Antarctica. This note consolidates these and other data and interprets them in the framework of existing theory. It appears that millenial and longer variations in cloud-level temperature on the polar ice sheets have been caused by changing atmospheric turbidity over the past 105 yr.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Rasool, S. I., and Schneider, S. H., Science, 173, 138 (1971).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Wexler, H., Tellus, 8, 480 (1956).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  3. Budyko, M. I., Meteorology and Hydrology, 11, 3 (1968).

    Google Scholar 

  4. Lamb, H. H., Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc., 226, 425 (1970).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  5. Dansgaard, W., and Johnson, S. J., J. Glaciol., 8, 215 (1969).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  6. Epstein, S., Sharp, R. P., and Gow, A. J., Science, 168, 1570 (1970).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Gow, A. J., International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciological Exploration (International Assoc. of Scientific Hydrology Publ. No. 86) (edit. by Gow, A. J., Keeler, C., Langway, jun., C. C., and Weeks, W. F.), 78 (1970).

    Google Scholar 

  8. Ragone, S. E., and Finelli, R. V., US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Technical Note (1971).

  9. Ragone, S. E., Leung, S., Finelli, R. V., and Wolf, C., US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Technical Note (1971).

  10. Budd, W. F., Jenssen, D., and Radok, U., University of Melbourne (Australia) Meteorology Dept. Publ., No. 18 (1971).

  11. Picciotto, E., de Maere, X., and Friedman, I., Nature, 187, 857 (1960).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  12. Murozumi, M., Chow, T. J., and Patterson, C., Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 33, 1247 (1969).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. Vittori, O., and Prodi, V., J. Atmos. Sci., 24, 533 (1967).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Polar Studies and Atmospheric Sciences Program, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 43210

    WAYNE L. HAMILTON

  2. Atmospheric Sciences Program and Department of Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 43210

    THOMAS A. SELIGA

Authors
  1. WAYNE L. HAMILTON
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. THOMAS A. SELIGA
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

HAMILTON, W., SELIGA, T. Atmospheric Turbidity and Surface Temperature on the Polar Ice Sheets. Nature 235, 320–322 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/235320a0

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/235320a0

  • Springer Nature Limited

This article is cited by

Search

Navigation