%0 Journal Article
%T Decadal Climate Change in Ny-£¿lesund, Svalbard, A Representative Area of the Arctic
%A Minghu Ding
%A Shujie Wang
%A Weijun Sun
%J Condensed Matter | An Open Access Journal from MDPI
%D 2018
%R https://doi.org/10.3390/condmat3020012
%X Abstract In recent decades, global warming hiatus/slowdown has attracted considerable attention and has been strongly debated. Many studies suggested that the Arctic is undergoing rapid warming and significantly contributes to a continual global warming trend rather than a hiatus. In this study, we evaluated the climate changes of Ny-£¿lesund, Svalbard, a representative location of the northern North Atlantic sector of the Arctic, based on observational records from 1975¨C2014. The results showed that the annual warming rate was four times higher than the global mean (+0.76 ¡ãC¡¤decade £¿1) and was also much greater than Arctic average. Additionally, the warming trend of Ny-£¿lesund started to slow down since 2005¨C2006, and our estimates showed that there is a 8¨C9 years-lagged, but significant, correlation between records of Ny-£¿lesund and global HadCRUT4 datasets. This finding indicates that the Arctic was likely experiencing a hiatus pattern, which just appeared later than the low-mid latitudes due to transport processes of atmospheric circulations and ocean currents, heat storage effect of cryospheric components, multidecadal variability of Arctic cyclone activities, etc. This case study provides a new perspective on the global warming hiatus/slowdown debate. View Full-Tex
%K Arctic
%K Arctic rapid warming
%K global warming hiatus
%K global warming slowdown
%U https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3896/3/2/12