However, Antarctica as a continent is warming slightly.ĭata from individual measurement stations can be viewed in the NASA GISS interactive application. An example of a location that has seen a temperature decrease (by approximately 1 ☌ since 1961) is Halley Station (75.45N, 26.217W) on the Weddell Sea coast. In Svalbard, the average annual temperature increased by 3.7 ☌, while in Franz Josef Land, it increased by 4.9 ☌. Specific examples of places with large temperature increases are the islands in the Arctic Ocean – Spitsbergen or Franz Josef Land.
#CLIMATE CHANGE INFOGRAPHIC 2019 OCEANS SERIES#
While this data series collection started in 1880, we decided to use data from 1961 and onwards to compare it in other infographics with the temperature data for the Czech Republic from the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI), as it started collecting data in 1961. The data comes from NASA GISS, which has been collecting temperature data from measuring stations on land and at sea for a long time. Back in 1979, the Charney Report summarized the results of climate models at the time, and the authors concluded: “When it is assumed that the CO 2 content of the atmosphere is doubled and statistical thermal equilibrium is achieved, the more realistic of the modeling efforts predict a global surface warming of between 2☌ and 3.5☌, with greater increases at high latitudes.” The amplification of warming over land and in the Northern Hemisphere is due to feedback in the climate system and is well modelled by current climate models. Furthermore, warming varies at different times of the year – for example, warming in the Arctic Ocean during the winter months has exceeded +6 ☌ since 1961. However, the landmasses are warming at about twice the rate of the oceans, with the Northern Hemisphere warming faster than the Southern Hemisphere.
The world has warmed by about 1 ☌ since 1961.
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