A Comparison between Air & Sea Temperatures 
At Nuuk in West – Greenland 
24 Januar 2009

Extract from: M. Stein (2007)[1]

1) Nuuk air temperature anomalies (Graphic by M. Stein not reproduced here)

• Very cold conditions were seen during the 1880s to 1910s.
• Warming began around 1920.
• Presently Nuuk enjoys warm conditions as during the 1926-30 period.

2. Nuuk sea surface temperatures (see reproduce graphic by M. Stein)

•  The 1890s appeared as a decade with warm SSTs.

• The first decade of the new century showed shrinking of the Gyre, and only East Greenland waters were warmer than normal during those times.
• From 1915 onwards, warming increased.
• A warm Gyre was seen in the second part of the 1920s.

 Comment:

• The series do not show an immediate correlation between the big warming at Spitsbergen during winter 1918/19, but a time lag of about two to three years.
• A partly connection with the sudden changes in the Northern North Atlantic during the late 1910s could be possible.