is greenhouse gas forcing a plausible explanation for the observed warming in the Baltic sea catchment area ?
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We investigated whether anthropogenic forcing is a plausible explanation for the observed warming in the Baltic Sea catchment area. Therefore, we compared the most recent trends in the surface temperature over land with anthropogenic climate change projections from regional climate model simulations. We analyzed patterns of change with different spatiotemporal resolutions. The observed annual area-mean change in the daily-mean temperature was consistent with the anthropogenic climate change signal. This finding was robust to the removal of the signal of the North Atlantic Oscillation. In contrast to the annual areamean change, we found little consistency in both annual cycle and spatial variability of the observed and projected changes.
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