Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Identifying a human signal in the North Atlantic warming hole

  • Rei Chemke,
  • Laure Zanna,
  • Lorenzo M. Polvani

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15285-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Most of the North Atlantic has seen strong increase in surface temperatures in recent decades, except for one region, which has been called the North Atlantic warming hole. Here, the authors employ detection and attribution techniques to show that this temperature pattern in recent decades is being caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.