Good work, William!
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Significant Warming of the Antarctic Winter Troposphere
J. Turner,* T. A. Lachlan-Cope, S. Colwell, G. J. Marshall, W. M. Connolley

We report an undocumented major warming of the Antarctic winter troposphere
that is larger than any previously identified regional tropospheric warming on
Earth. This result has come to light through an analysis of recently digitized
and rigorously quality controlled Antarctic radiosonde observations. The data
show that regional midtropospheric temperatures have increased at a
statistically significant rate of 0.5° to 0.7°Celsius per decade over the past
30 years. Analysis of the time series of radiosonde temperatures indicates that
the data are temporally homogeneous. The available data do not allow us to
unambiguously assign a cause to the tropospheric warming at this stage.

*British Antarctic Survey
Natural Environment Research Council
Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK.

Science 31 March 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5769, pp. 1914 - 1917
DOI: 10.1126/science.1121652

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Eric Swanson --- E-mail address: e_swanson(at)skybest.com :-)
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:58:29 +0000 (UTC),
(Eric Swanson) wrote:

Good work, William!
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Significant Warming of the Antarctic Winter Troposphere
J. Turner,* T. A. Lachlan-Cope, S. Colwell, G. J. Marshall, W. M. Connolley

We report an undocumented major warming of the Antarctic winter troposphere
that is larger than any previously identified regional tropospheric warming on
Earth. This result has come to light through an analysis of recently digitized
and rigorously quality controlled Antarctic radiosonde observations. The data
show that regional midtropospheric temperatures have increased at a
statistically significant rate of 0.5° to 0.7°Celsius per decade over the past
30 years. Analysis of the time series of radiosonde temperatures indicates that
the data are temporally homogeneous. The available data do not allow us to
unambiguously assign a cause to the tropospheric warming at this stage.

*British Antarctic Survey
Natural Environment Research Council
Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK.

Science 31 March 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5769, pp. 1914 - 1917
DOI: 10.1126/science.1121652

I just asked for and received a copy from John Turner. Appreciated
hearing about it here.

Jon

It's even made ink in the Times:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...111772,00.html

"Jonathan Kirwan" wrote in message
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:58:29 +0000 (UTC),
(Eric Swanson) wrote:

Good work, William!
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Significant Warming of the Antarctic Winter Troposphere
J. Turner,* T. A. Lachlan-Cope, S. Colwell, G. J. Marshall, W. M.
Connolley

We report an undocumented major warming of the Antarctic winter
troposphere
that is larger than any previously identified regional tropospheric
warming on
Earth. This result has come to light through an analysis of recently
digitized
and rigorously quality controlled Antarctic radiosonde observations. The
data
show that regional midtropospheric temperatures have increased at a
statistically significant rate of 0.5° to 0.7°Celsius per decade over the
past
30 years. Analysis of the time series of radiosonde temperatures indicates
that
the data are temporally homogeneous. The available data do not allow us to
unambiguously assign a cause to the tropospheric warming at this stage.

*British Antarctic Survey
Natural Environment Research Council
Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK.

Science 31 March 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5769, pp. 1914 - 1917
DOI: 10.1126/science.1121652

I just asked for and received a copy from John Turner. Appreciated
hearing about it here.

Don[t forget the summary and discussion he
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php...r-troposphere/

--
Coby Beck
(remove #\Space "coby 101 @ bigpond . com")

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:17:46 GMT, "Coby Beck"
wrote:

Don[t forget the summary and discussion he
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php...r-troposphere/

I note that from there the actual paper can be had, too, because WM
Connolley makes it available (being an author.) Thanks.

Jon