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2013 in Antarctica
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2013
This is a list of events occurring in Antarctica in 2013.
Events
An 18 kg lb on meteorite discovered frozen in ice on the Nansen ice field in January by the Search for Antarctic Meteorites, Belgian Approach (SAMBA) mission.Antarctic scientists find 18kg meteorite http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10868465 2 March 2013 New Zealand Herald 1 March 2013 6 September 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200906174408/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10868465
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".David H. Bromwich Julien P. Nicolas Andrew J. Monaghan Matthew A. Lazzara Linda M. Keller George A. Weidner Aaron B. Wilson Central West Antarctica among the most rapidly warming regions on Earth Nature Geoscience 2013 6 2 139–145 10.1038/ngeo1671 2013NatGe...6..139B
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