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Assessing recent trends in high-latitude Southern Hemisphere surface climate
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Jones, JM and Gille, ST and Goosse, H and Abram, NJ and Canziani, PO and Charman, DJ and Clem, KR and Crosta, X and de Lavergne, C and Eisenman, I and England, MH and Fogt, RL and Frankcombe, LM and Marshall, GJ and Masson-Delmotte, V and Morrison, AK and Orsi, AJ and Raphael, MN and Renwick, JA and Schneider, DP and Simpkins, GR and Steig, EJ and Stenni, B and Swingedouw, D and Vance, TR, Assessing recent trends in high-latitude Southern Hemisphere surface climate, Nature Climate Change, 6, (10) pp. 917-926. ISSN 1758-678X (2016) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Understanding the causes of recent climatic trends and variability in the high-latitude Southern Hemisphere is hampered by a short instrumental record. Here, we analyse recent atmosphere, surface ocean and sea-ice observations in this region and assess their trends in the context of palaeoclimate records and climate model simulations. Over the 36-year satellite era, significant linear trends in annual mean sea-ice extent, surface temperature and sea-level pressure are superimposed on large interannual to decadal variability. Most observed trends, however, are not unusual when compared with Antarctic palaeoclimate records of the past two centuries. With the exception of the positive trend in the Southern Annular Mode, climate model simulations that include anthropogenic forcing are not compatible with the observed trends. This suggests that natural variability overwhelms the forced response in the observations, but the models may not fully represent this natural variability or may overestimate the magnitude of the forced response.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | Southern Hemisphere, climate, climate models, climactic trends |
| Research Division: | Earth Sciences |
| Research Group: | Climate change science |
| Research Field: | Climate change processes |
| Objective Division: | Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Natural Hazards |
| Objective Group: | Understanding climate change |
| Objective Field: | Climate variability (excl. social impacts) |
| UTAS Author: | Vance, TR (Dr Tessa Vance) |
| ID Code: | 111908 |
| Year Published: | 2016 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 146 |
| Deposited By: | CRC-Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems |
| Deposited On: | 2016-10-14 |
| Last Modified: | 2017-10-30 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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