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Atmospheric Turbidity and Surface Temperature on the Polar Ice Sheets

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DATA relevant to the causation of climatic change, particularly changes in mean annual temperature at the surface over intervals of from 10 to 105 yr, have been accumulating gradually in various laboratories engaged in studying the two long ice cores from Camp Century, Greenland, and “New” Byrd Station, Antarctica. This note consolidates these and other data and interprets them in the framework of existing theory. It appears that millenial and longer variations in cloud-level temperature on the polar ice sheets have been caused by changing atmospheric turbidity over the past 105 yr.

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HAMILTON, W., SELIGA, T. Atmospheric Turbidity and Surface Temperature on the Polar Ice Sheets. Nature 235, 320–322 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/235320a0

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