ADVANCES IN POLAR SCIENCE ›› 2003, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (2): 121-128.

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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AIR TEMPERATURE OF ANTARCTIC PENINSULAR, ANTARCTIC SEA ICE OSCILLATION AND ENSO

  

  • Online:2003-06-30 Published:2003-06-30

Abstract:

The Relationship between air temperature at Antarctic Peninsular, Antarctic sea ice oscillation and ENSO is analysed by using the 6 weather stations observation data on Antarctic Peninsular. The result shows that air temperature variation at the peninsular can be a good reflection of the Antarctic sea ice oscillations, which means a negative correlation between air temperature and sea ice anomaly near Antarctic Peninsular; a positive correlation between air temperature of Antarctic Peninsular and the sea ice anomaly at Ross Sea. When air temperature at peninsular is in its lower (higher) stage, the sea ice near peninsular is normally more heavy (less), air temperature in middle and East Pacific sea surface temperature(SST) is higher(lower), which is connected with ElNino (LaNina). In addition, the air temperature in October has an important reference for predict SST at Nino3 region in next January.