22 Land areas are projected to warm more than the oceans with the greatest warming at high
latitudes Annual mean temperature change, 2071 to 2100 relative to 1990: Global Average in 2085 = 3.1 o C
Not exact matches
For the change in
annual mean surface air
temperature in the various cases, the model experiments show the familiar pattern documented in the SAR with a maximum warming in the high
latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere and a minimum in the Southern Ocean (due to ocean heat uptake)(2)
... Polar amplification explains in part why Greenland Ice Sheet and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appear to be highly sensitive to relatively small increases in CO2 concentration and global
mean temperature... Polar amplification occurs if the magnitude of zonally averaged surface
temperature change at high
latitudes exceeds the globally averaged
temperature change, in response to climate forcings and on time scales greater than the
annual cycle.
For the change in
annual mean surface air
temperature in the various cases, the model experiments show the familiar pattern documented in the SAR with a maximum warming in the high
latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere and a minimum in the Southern Ocean (due to ocean heat uptake) evident in the zonal
mean for the CMIP2 models (Figure 9.8) and the geographical patterns for all categories of models (Figure 9.10).