An international team of scientists has discovered that the interior of East Antarctica is warming faster than its coastlines. The cause is warm air coming from the southern Indian Ocean. This discovery may mean that current climate models are underestimating how quickly glaciers are melting.
The interior of East Antarctica is warming faster than its coastlines, and scientists from Nagoya University have found an unexpected explanation for this. According to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, the cause is warm air coming from the southern Indian Ocean.
Professor Naoyuki Kurita and his team analyzed data from three weather stations in East Antarctica, which showed a temperature increase of 0.45 to 0.72 °C per decade from 1993 to 2022. This is significantly higher than the average global warming.
