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Arctic warming, increasing snow cover and widespread boreal winter cooling
Description: For the last two decades, large-scale cooling trends have existed across large stretches of eastern North America and northern Eurasia. The authors of this journal article argue that this unforeseen trend is probably not due to internal variability alone. Instead, evidence suggests that summer and autumn warming trends are concurrent with increases in high-latitude moisture and an increase in Eurasian snow cover, which dynamically induces large-scale wintertime cooling. [Source: Environmental Research Letters]
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014007
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Source: Environmental Research Letters
Publish Date: 3/1/2012
Reading Level: Expert
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