Temperature Adjustments In Greenland

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

h/t Armando

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http://www.dmi.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/Rapporter/TR/2014/tr14-06.pdf

In April, DMI published their annual report on temperature trends in SW Greenland.

They have built up a temperature series built around the three stations of Nuuk, Ilulissat and Qaqortoq, and present this graph. (They also show Tasilaq, or Angmagssalik, which is in Eastern Greenland, for comparison).

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The record mild year of 2010 stands out, but otherwise temperatures in the last decade have been around the same level as the 1930’s and 40’s. At Nuuk, for instance, the 2013 annual mean temperature was –0.3C; twenty eight other years have been as warm or warmer, including five in the 1940’s.

Looking at the 10-Year average for Nuuk, we find that the current figure is –0.2C, only slightly warmer then the 1928-37 figure of –0.3C.

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The amount and rate of rise in the last two decades is also comparable to that in the years leading up…

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