Recent regional climate cooling on the Antarctic Peninsula and
associated impacts on the cryosphere

J 2017

Recent regional climate cooling on the Antarctic Peninsula and associated impacts on the cryosphere

OLIVA, Marc, Francisco NAVARRO, Filip HRBÁČEK, Armand HERNANDÉZ, Daniel NÝVLT et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Recent regional climate cooling on the Antarctic Peninsula and associated impacts on the cryosphere

Authors

OLIVA, Marc (724 Spain), Francisco NAVARRO (724 Spain), Filip HRBÁČEK (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Armand HERNANDÉZ (724 Spain), Daniel NÝVLT (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Paulo PERREIRA (724 Spain), Jesus RUIZ-FERNANDÉZ (724 Spain) and Ricardo TRIGO (724 Spain)

Edition

Science of the Total Environment, Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2017, 0048-9697

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10510 Climatic research

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 4.610

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/17:00094578

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.030

UT WoS

000395353600022

Keywords in English

Antarctic Peninsula; Climate variability; Cooling; Cryosphere

Abstract

V originále

The Antarctic Peninsula (AP) is often described as a regionwith one of the largestwarming trends on Earth since the 1950s, based on the temperature trend of 0.54 °C/decade during 1951–2011 recorded at Faraday/Vernadsky station. Accordingly, most works describing the evolution of the natural systems in the AP region cite this extreme trend as the underlying cause of their observed changes. However, a recent analysis (Turner et al., 2016) has shown that the regionally stacked temperature record for the last three decades has shifted from a warming trend of 0.32 °C/decade during 1979–1997 to a cooling trend of -0.47 °C/decade during 1999–2014.While that study focuses on the period 1979–2014, averaging the data over the entire AP region, we here update and reassess the spatially-distributed temperature trends and inter-decadal variability from 1950 to 2015, using data from ten stations distributed across the AP region. We show that Faraday/Vernadsky warming trend is an extreme case, circa twice those of the long-term records from other parts of the northern AP. Our results also indicate that the cooling initiated in 1998/1999 has been most significant in the N and NE of the AP and the South Shetland Islands (more than 0.5 °C between the two last decades), modest in the Orkney Islands, and absent in the SW of the AP. This recent cooling has already impacted the cryosphere in the northern AP, including slow-down of glacier recession, a shift to surface mass gains of the peripheral glacier and a thinning of the active layer of permafrost in northern AP islands.

Links

GC16-14122J, research and development project

Name: Reakce ledovců na recentní klimatickou variabilitu v severovýchodní části Antarktického poloostrova

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

LM2015078, research and development project

Name: Česká polární výzkumná infrastruktura (Acronym: CzechPolar2)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR

MUNI/A/1315/2015, interní kód MU

Name: Integrovaný výzkum environmentálních změn v krajinné sféře Země

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

OLIVA, Marc, Francisco NAVARRO, Filip HRBÁČEK, Armand HERNANDÉZ, Daniel NÝVLT, Paulo PERREIRA, Jesus RUIZ-FERNANDÉZ and Ricardo TRIGO. Recent regional climate cooling on the Antarctic Peninsula and associated impacts on the cryosphere. Science of the Total Environment. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2017, vol. 580, February, p. 210-223. ISSN 0048-9697. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.030.

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N2  - The Antarctic Peninsula (AP) is often described as a regionwith one of the largestwarming trends on Earth since the 1950s, based on the temperature trend of 0.54 °C/decade during 1951–2011 recorded at Faraday/Vernadsky station. Accordingly, most works describing the evolution of the natural systems in the AP region cite this extreme trend as the underlying cause of their observed changes. However, a recent analysis (Turner et al., 2016) has shown that the regionally stacked temperature record for the last three decades has shifted from a warming trend of 0.32 °C/decade during 1979–1997 to a cooling trend of -0.47 °C/decade during 1999–2014.While that study focuses on the period 1979–2014, averaging the data over the entire AP region, we here update and reassess the spatially-distributed temperature trends and inter-decadal variability from 1950 to 2015, using data from ten stations distributed across the AP region. We show that Faraday/Vernadsky warming trend is an extreme case, circa twice those of the long-term records from other parts of the northern AP. Our results also indicate that the cooling initiated in 1998/1999 has been most significant in the N and NE of the AP and the South Shetland Islands (more than 0.5 °C between the two last decades), modest in the Orkney Islands, and absent in the SW of the AP. This recent cooling has already impacted the cryosphere in the northern AP, including slow-down of glacier recession, a shift to surface mass gains of the peripheral glacier and a thinning of the active layer of permafrost in northern AP islands.
ER  -

OLIVA, Marc, Francisco NAVARRO, Filip HRBÁČEK, Armand HERNANDÉZ, Daniel NÝVLT, Paulo PERREIRA, Jesus RUIZ-FERNANDÉZ and Ricardo TRIGO. Recent regional climate cooling on the Antarctic Peninsula and associated impacts on the cryosphere. \textit{Science of the Total Environment}. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2017, vol.~580, February, p.~210-223. ISSN~0048-9697. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.030.

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