Abstract
Ratio of the Greenland to global temperature change: Comparison of observations and climate modeling results
Space and Remote Sensing Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland
Temperature changes over Greenland are of special interest due to a possible melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet and resulting sea level rise. General Circulation Models (GCMs) predict that the temperature changes in Greenland should proceed at a faster rate than the global temperature change. Until now there has been no confirmation that Greenland's long-term temperature changes are related to the global warming and that they proceed faster than the global temperature change. Using double correlations between the Greenland temperature records, North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index and global temperature change we find a region of Greenland that is not affected by the NAO. Using this region as an indicator of Greenland's temperature change that is related to global warming, we find that the ratio of the Greenland to global temperature change due to global warming is 2.2 in broad agreement with GCM predictions.
Received 18 May 2005; accepted 23 June 2005; published 21 July 2005.
Citation: (2005), Ratio of the Greenland to global temperature change: Comparison of observations and climate modeling results, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L14705, doi:10.1029/2005GL023552.
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