2013 in Antarctica

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Events from the year 2013 in Antarctica

Events

January
  • An 18 kg (40 lb) meteorite was discovered frozen in ice on the Nansen ice field by a Search for Antarctic Meteorites, Belgian Approach (SAMBA) mission.[1]

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  • A study published in Nature Geoscience in this year identified central West Antarctica as one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth. The researchers present a complete temperature record from Antarctica's Byrd Station and assert that it "reveals a linear increase in annual temperature between 1958 and 2010 by 2.4±1.2 °C".[2]
gollark: Indeed.
gollark: My computer can calculate things! It literally has 6TFLOP/s of computing power!
gollark: You pay a lot of capital for essentially a worse more constrained phone with the advantage of moderately better battery life and being allowed in exams.
gollark: Physical calculators are just bad, though.
gollark: Nobody has to know.

References
  1. "Antarctic scientists find 18kg meteorite". New Zealand Herald. 1 March 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
  2. Bromwich, David H.; Nicolas, Julien P.; Monaghan, Andrew J.; Lazzara, Matthew A.; Keller, Linda M.; Weidner, George A.; Wilson, Aaron B. (2013). "Central West Antarctica among the most rapidly warming regions on Earth". Nature Geoscience. 6 (2): 139–145. Bibcode:2013NatGe...6..139B. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.394.1974. doi:10.1038/ngeo1671.
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