Tropical air circulation drives fall warming on Antarctic Peninsula
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 14:32
in Earth & Climate
(Phys.org) —The eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, a finger of the southern polar continent that juts toward South America, has experienced summer warming of perhaps a half-degree per decade – a greater rate than possibly anywhere else on Earth – in the last 50 years, and that warming is largely attributed to human causes.