Word: ulrik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of Soviet meteorologists, who have recorded Arctic temperatures for a decade, reported last fortnight that the Arctic is warmer. They are backed up by Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, onetime chief of Explorer Roald Amundsen's scientific staff, now head of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California, who found Arctic sea water warmer in 1931 than it was in 1918. The Northern Hemisphere is still recovering from the last great glaciation of the Ice Age, though for chronological purposes this period is considered to have ended some 20,000 years ago. The continental ice sheet which once covered...