Friday, 17 May 2013

Tropical air circulation drives fall warming on Antarctic Peninsula

Seattle WA (SPX) May 17, 2013



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.

But new University of Washington research shows that the Southern Hemisph