2013 in Antarctica

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This is a list of events occurring in Antarctica in 2013.

Events

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

• 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]

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.