Long-term temperature trends and variability on Spitsbergen: the extended Svalbard Airport temperature series, 1898-2012

• Published in: Polar research Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 21349 - np
• Main Authors: Nordli, Øyvind, Przybylak, Rajmund, Ogilvie, Astrid E.J., Isaksen, Ketil
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Spånga Routledge 01.01.2014; Open Academia; Norwegian Polar Institute
• Subjects: Airports; Archipelagoes; Arctic; Climate change; homogenization; Spitsbergen; Svalbard; Temperature; temperature records; temperature trends; Trends; Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen; PN, Arctic; Europe

One of the few long instrumental records available for the Arctic is the Svalbard Airport composite series that hitherto began in 1911, with observations made on Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard Archipelago. This record has now been extended to 1898 with the inclusion of observations...