2013 in Antarctica

Events

• An meteorite discovered frozen in ice on the Nansen ice field in January by the Search for Antarctic Meteorites, Belgian Approach mission.
• 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".