Climate Changes in Greenland and in Antarctica
By Charles Clark
Link to article:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150429132920.htm
This article mentions the abrupt climate changes that has been happening between Greenland and Antarctica. Not just that their climates are getting colder, but their climates are actually getting warmer and/or cooler between each other. This change has been going on for a 200-year period, which is kind of odd considering that ocean circulation keeps their climates normal. Although the ocean currents coming towards Greenland and Antarctica are coming from the tropical climates. Which means that Greenland and Antarctica are in those sweet spots that allows those tropical ocean currents to warm up the land. The way they stay cool before the tropical ocean current come in, are their ice cores. For each ice core, that's where it mostly snows which keeps the cores cold and pack in underground with the snow on top as well. For environmental science purposes, it consists of the topic on biomes, including the cold desert. Another topic that the article consists of is climate change because it talks about how Greenland is getting warmer and how Antarctica is getting cooler and vice versa.
Question for partner from the article:
What does AMOC stand for and how does it relate back to the climate changes between the northern and southern hemispheres?
