This is a list of events occurring in Antarctica in 2013.
Events
An 18kg (40lb)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]
↑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. CiteSeerX10.1.1.394.1974. doi:10.1038/ngeo1671.
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Years in Antarctica (1819–present)