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  • Global Change: Climate variability
  • Hydrology: Time series analysis
  • Oceanography: General: Climate and interannual variability
  • Atmospheric Processes: Climate change and variability
  • Atmospheric Processes: Climatology

Abstract

Greenland warming of 1920–1930 and 1995–2005

Petr Chylek

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Space and Remote Sensing Sciences, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

M. K. Dubey

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

G. Lesins

Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

We provide an analysis of Greenland temperature records to compare the current (1995–2005) warming period with the previous (1920–1930) Greenland warming. We find that the current Greenland warming is not unprecedented in recent Greenland history. Temperature increases in the two warming periods are of a similar magnitude, however, the rate of warming in 1920–1930 was about 50% higher than that in 1995–2005.

Received 10 April 2006; accepted 9 May 2006; published 13 June 2006.

Citation: Chylek, P., M. K. Dubey, and G. Lesins (2006), Greenland warming of 1920–1930 and 1995–2005, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L11707, doi:10.1029/2006GL026510.

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