[DX] Päivät ne vaan lyhenee?

["Mauno Ritola" <mauno.ritola@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/03/09/nu-sun.html
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Some Inuit say they hope scientists coming to Nunavut for research as part
of International Polar Year can help shed light on changes they're seeing in
the sun - particularly, how it's been showing up more often in the usually
always-dark winters.

For the past several years, residents in the High Arctic have observed that
the winter dark season is ending earlier than usual, with the sun coming up
at a different place than what people are used to seeing.

"The people [are] talking about earlier sunrise, more light in the dark
season, instead of being more total darkness than before," Grise Fiord
resident Larry Audlaluk said Thursday, adding that he has heard similar
observations from people in other Far North communities.

"There are notices of more daylight earlier, and the dark season is not the
real dark season that we used to know."

A bit further south, Igloolik Mayor Paul Quassa said hunters have noticed
the same phenomenon.

"This year, the sun started coming up so fast that it's almost like April
when it's mid-February," he said.

Both Audlaluk and Quassa were part of an International Polar Year planning
workshop Thursday in Iqaluit.

Wayne Davidson, who is the resident meteorologist in Resolute Bay, said the
likely cause of this "rising sun" mystery is a temperature difference
between the very cold air over the snow and the air above, which has been
warmer than usual.

Glaciologist Dr. Roy Koerner, with the Geological Survey of Canada, agreed,
comparing it to sticking a fork into a glass of water: the fork appears to
bend where it enters the water, he said.

"So you get the same effect: you get this bent effect. Except in this case,
the sun, which is just below the horizon, looks as if it's above the
horizon, just a bit of it," he said.

Both Koerner and Davidson said they believe a warming climate is
responsible. They said they hope Inuit and scientists working during
International Polar Year can work together on more in-depth analysis of the
observations.

73, Mauno 

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