#showyourstripes. In Art of Science

Caption: The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as nearly everywhere else on the planet Participant category: Graduate student Department: Scripps Institution of Oceanography A depiction of the famous warming stripes (coined by Ed Hawkins) for temperatures in the Arctic region. Each stripe represents the average temperature of each year relative to the average temperature over the entire period. This value is known as the temperature anomaly. Blue shades represent years that are colder than average, and red shades represent warmer-than-average years. The stark trend of deepening red toward the right indicates that there is a clear warming trend in the Arctic over time. This trend of increasing temperature can also be seen in the black line overlaid on the stripes. The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as nearly everywhere else on the planet. This is causing sea ice to melt at alarming rates, which has many implications for changes in climate on the global scale. Data: Air temperature data are from the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis product.