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The Arctic

Matthew L. Druckenmiller, Twila Moon, Richard Thoman, Thomas J. Ballinger, Logan T. Berner, G. Bernhard, Uma S. Bhatt, Jarle W. Bjerke, Jason E. Box, Ross Brown, John Cappelen, Hanne H. Christiansen, Bertrand Decharme, Chris Derksen, Dmitry Divine, Dmitry Drozdov, Aleksandra Elias Chereque, Howard E. Epstein, Louise Farquharson, S. L. Farrell, Robert S. Fausto, Xavier Fettweis, Vitali Fioletov, Bruce C. Forbes, Gerald V. Frost, Emily Gargulinski, Sebastian Gerland, S. J. Goetz, Z. Grabinski, Jens‐Uwe Grooß, Christian Haas, Edward Hanna, Inger Hanssen‐Bauer, Stefan Hendricks, R. M. Holmes, Iolanda Ialongo, Ketil Isaksen, Piyush Jain, Bjørn Johnsen, Lars Kaleschke, A. L. Kholodov, Seong‐Joong Kim, Niels J. Korsgaard, Zachary M. Labe, Kaisa Lakkala, Mark J. Lara, Bryant D. Loomis, K. Luojus, Matthew J. Macander, Г. В. Малкова, Kenneth D. Mankoff, G. L. Manney, J. W. McClelland, Walter N. Meier, Thomas L. Mote, L. Mudryk, Rolf Müller, Kelsey E. Nyland, James E. Overland, T. Park, Olga Pavlova, Donald K. Perovich, Alek Petty, Gareth K. Phoenix, Martha K. Raynolds, Carleen H. Reijmer, J. Richter‐Menge, Robert Ricker, V. E. Romanovsky, Lindsay Scott, H. A. Shapiro, A. I. Shiklomanov, N. I. Shiklomanov, C. J. P. P. Smeets, Sharon L. Smith, A. J. Soja, Robert G. M. Spencer, S. Starkweather, D. A. Streletskiy, Anya Suslova, Tove Svendby, Suzanne E. Tank, M. Tedesco, Xiangshan Tian‐Kunze, Mary‐Louise Timmermans, Hans Tømmervik, Mikhail Tretiakov, Mark Tschudi, Sofia Vakhutinsky, D. van As, Roderik S. W. van de Wal, Sander Veraverbeke, Donald A. Walker, John E. Walsh, Muyin Wang, Melinda Webster, Øyvind Winton, Kevin R. Wood, Alison York, Robert Ziel

2021Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society51 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

The Arctic in 2020 was exceptionally warm. The annual mean surface air temperature (SAT) anomaly for land areas poleward of 60°N was 2.1°C above the 1981–2010 average, marking the highest observed SAT anomaly for the terrestrial Arctic since at least 1900. It was also the seventh consecutive year with SAT anomalies of more than +1°C higher than the 1981–2010 average.

Topics & Concepts

Environmental scienceArcticThe arcticGeographyClimatologyOceanographyGeologyClimate change and permafrostArctic and Antarctic ice dynamicsCryospheric studies and observations