Communications Earth & Environment (Aug 2022)

The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979

  • Mika Rantanen,
  • Alexey Yu. Karpechko,
  • Antti Lipponen,
  • Kalle Nordling,
  • Otto Hyvärinen,
  • Kimmo Ruosteenoja,
  • Timo Vihma,
  • Ari Laaksonen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00498-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Over the past four decades, Arctic Amplification - the ratio of Arctic to global warming - has been much stronger than thought, and is probably underestimated in climate models, suggest analyses of observations and the CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulations.