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Sydney Even the world's coldest continent is not immune to rising global temperatures, with scientists recording the first-ever heatwave event in...
Sydney Even the world's coldest continent is not immune to rising global temperatures, with scientists recording the first-ever heatwave event in Antarctica over the 2019-20 summer period.
Researchers from the Australian Antarctic Program revealed on Tuesday that they had recorded temperatures as high as 9.2 degrees Celsius at Casey station in the continent east earlier this year, reports Xinhua news agnecy.
"Heatwaves are classified as three consecutive days with both extreme maximum and minimum temperatures," University of Wollongong biologist Sharon Robinson explained.
Between January 23 and 26, the station recorded minimum temperatures above zero degrees Celsius and a maximum temperature of 9.2 degrees Celsius.
"In the 31-year record for Casey, this maximum is 6.9 degrees Celsius higher than the mean maximum temperature for the station, while the minimum is 0.2 degrees Celsius higher," Robinson said.
Scientists are concerned about the effect that the heatwave could have on Antarctica's ecology -- both positive and negative.
"Most life exists in small ice-free oases in Antarctica, and largely depends on melting snow and ice for their water supply," Australian Antarctic Division applied Antarctic ecologist Dana Bergstrom, said.
"Melted ice flooding can provide additional water to these desert ecosystems, leading to increased growth and reproduction of mosses, lichens, microbes and invertebrates. However excessive flooding can dislodge plants and alter the composition of communities of invertebrates and microbial mats."
It is believed that the unusual temperatures were linked to meteorological patterns which occurred in the Southern Hemisphere during the spring and summer of 2019.
These patterns were influenced in part by the early break-up of the ozone hole in late 2019, due to rapid warming in the stratosphere, according to Australian Antarctic Division atmospheric scientist Andrew Klekociuk.
Klekociuk said that global cooperative efforts being undertaken to repair and eventually close the hole in the ozone layer would help reduce regional shifts in the climate system.
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