Richter-Menge, J. and Overland, J. and Mathis, J. T. (2016) Arctic Report Card 2016. Project Report. NOAA.
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Abstract
The Arctic Report Card (www.arctic.noaa.gov/ReportCard/) considers a range of environmental observations throughout the Arctic, and is updated annually. As in previous years, the 2016 update to the Arctic Report Card highlights the changes that continue to occur in, and among, the physical and biological components of the Arctic environmental system. Arctic air temperatures continue to increase at double the rate of the global temperature increase. The average annual surface air temperature anomaly (+2.0° C relative to the 19812010 baseline) over land north of 60° N between October 2015 and September 2016 was by far the highest in the observational record beginning in 1900. This represents a 3.5° C increase since the beginning of the 20th Century. Autumn, spring and winter showed extensive positive average air temperature anomalies across the central Arctic, primarily due to southerly winds moving warm air into the Arctic from midlatitudes. Winter air temperatures greatly exceeded the previous record, with several locations showing January temperature more than 8° C above the norm. Contrary to conditions in much of the previous decade, neutral to cold temperature anomalies occurred across the central Arctic Ocean in summer 2016.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Project Report) |
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| Subjects: | Natural Environment > Cryosphere Research and Education > Projects |
| Organizations: | Unspecified |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Apr 2026 14:20 |
| URI: | https://library.arcticportal.org/id/eprint/2936 |
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