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Hanna & Cappelen 2003
Hanna, E. and Cappelen, J. (2003). Recent cooling in coastal southern Greenland and relation with the North Atlantic Oscillation. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2002GL015797. issn: 0094-8276.

Analysis of new data for eight stations in coastal southern Greenland, 1958--2001, shows a significant cooling (trend-line change -1.29¿C for the 44 years), as do sea-surface temperatures in the adjacent part of the Labrador Sea, in contrast to global warming (+0.53¿C over the same period). The land and sea temperature series follow similar patterns and are strongly correlated but with no obvious lead/lag either way. This cooling is significantly inversely correlated with an increased phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) over the past few decades (r = -0.76), and will probably have significantly affected the mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

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Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Climatology, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, General circulation, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Polar meteorology, Global Change, Atmosphere (0315, 0325), Hydrology, Glaciology
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Geophysical Research Letters
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