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It is clearly visible, the highest temperature increase is again around the arctic regions. In winter, temperatures in this region are anyway below the freezing point, so there is no expected ice melt.
However this temperature pattern - as far as I can tell - is the same in summer time. And this is really important for the climate change dynamic, which is going on there.
Two days agao, there was a comment about the cubic mile oil. Putting this picture into perspective, Greenland obviuosly looses 52 cbm of ice each year. Which is quite a lot....
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Thanks Alan. Where did you got those? Do you know if the interpolations made to obtain these charts where originally made on an equal-area cartographic plane?
I used Titan24 to generate the orthographic projections from the images you posted after cropping the labels. If you are interested in creating other views Titan24 is available here:
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/titan24/
To use it to view something other than Titan you only need to add a cylindrical projection to the sourcemaps folder.