In article , Yokel wrote:



"W. Watson" wrote in message
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| I heard part of a weather announcement a few days ago that said scientists
| had detected the unusual appearance of warm air above the antarctic. Are
| there any more details on that. This leads me to ask scientists can detect
| this? I would think weather balloons, but perhaps satellites too.
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The article I read described this as a "Stratospheric Warming".


this is inaccurate, the warming is in the troposphere
the paper is
'Significant Warming of the Antarctic Winter Troposphere'
Turner et al. Science, 311, pp1914 et seq.

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