It has been known at least since the end of the century that the
polar areas play a very important role in the formation of the
Earth's climates. It is also known today that they are the most
sensitive regions to climatic change, and are thus perfect case
studies for the detection of such changes. The most serious
obstacle to the study of climatic and other geographical elements
of the polar areas (including the Arctic) has always been the
severe climatic conditions which prevail in these regions. Because
of these extreme con- tions, research into particular elements of
the climatic system (including the atmosphere) began here much
later than it did in lower latitudes. For instance, the whole area
of the Arctic was not sufficiently covered with a network of
meteorological stations until the late 1940s (and even then there
were large areas of the central Arctic and the Greenland interior
for which no data were available). This is probably why it was not
until the start of the 1990s that a body of work began to appear
which analysed in any depth climatic variability for the Arctic as
a whole. While a considerable number of papers had been p- lished
before this period, most of them were local studies presenting
highly localised information, providing air temperature
measurements but often little else.
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