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Warming reaches the South Pole

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Over the last half of the twentieth century, surface temperature over the South Pole was steady if not slightly cooling, suggesting the high Antarctic interior might be immune to warming. Research now shows a dramatic switch; in the past 30 years, the South Pole has been warming at over three times the global rate.

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Fig. 1: Changes in Antarctic atmospheric circulation patterns and air temperature.

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  1. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

    Sharon E. Stammerjohn

  2. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

    Ted A. Scambos

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Stammerjohn, S.E., Scambos, T.A. Warming reaches the South Pole. Nat. Clim. Chang. 10, 710–711 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0827-8

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