Une étude de John Turner du British Antarctic Survey publiée dans Science le 30 mars laisse perplexe : l'Antarctique se réchauffe trois fois plus vite que le reste du monde.
Pourquoi ? Quelles sont les pistes explicatives ?
NB - D'un point de vue théorique, la dislocation et/ou la fonte de la calotte antarctique (30 millions de kilomètres-cubes de glace) conduirait à une élévation d'environ 80 mètres du niveau des océans au niveau mondial.Rapid temperature increases above the Antarctic - No: 07/2006 30 Mar 2006
A new analysis of weather balloon observations from the last 30 years reveals that the Antarctic has the same ‘global warming’ signature as that seen across the whole Earth, but is three times larger than that observed globally. The results by scientists from British Antarctic Survey are reported this week in Science.
Although the rapid surface warming in the Antarctic Peninsula region has been known for some time, this study has produced the first indications of broad-scale climate change across the whole Antarctic continent. Lead author Dr John Turner of the British Antarctic Survey says :
"The warming above the Antarctic could have implications for snowfall across the Antarctic and sea level rise. Current climate model simulations don’t reproduce the observed warming, pointing to weaknesses in their ability to represent the Antarctic climate system. Our next step is to try to improve the models. "
The paper ‘Significant warming of the Antarctic winter troposphere’ is published in Science on 30 March 2006.
Source : http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/News_and...ory.php?id=281
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