Arctic amplification of climate change: a review of underlying mechanisms

M Previdi, KL Smith, LM Polvani - Environmental Research …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Arctic amplification (AA)—referring to the enhancement of near-surface air temperature
change over the Arctic relative to lower latitudes—is a prominent feature of climate change …

Quantifying climate feedbacks in polar regions

H Goosse, JE Kay, KC Armour… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The concept of feedback is key in assessing whether a perturbation to a system is amplified
or damped by mechanisms internal to the system. In polar regions, climate dynamics are …

The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979

M Rantanen, AY Karpechko, A Lipponen… - … earth & environment, 2022 - nature.com
In recent decades, the warming in the Arctic has been much faster than in the rest of the
world, a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification. Numerous studies report that the Arctic …

Future global climate: scenario-based projections and near-term information

JY Lee, J Marotzke, G Bala, L Cao, S Corti… - Climate change 2021 …, 2021 - cambridge.org
This chapter assesses simulations of future global climate change, spanning time horizons
from the near term (2021–2040), mid-term (2041–2060), and long term (2081–2100) out to …

[HTML][HTML] Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

P Ditlevsen, S Ditlevsen - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a major tip** element in the
climate system and a future collapse would have severe impacts on the climate in the North …

Many risky feedback loops amplify the need for climate action

WJ Ripple, C Wolf, TM Lenton, JW Gregg, SM Natali… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Many feedback loops significantly increase warming due to greenhouse gas emissions.
However, not all of these feedbacks are fully accounted for in climate models. Thus …

Evaluation of CMIP6 deck experiments with CNRM‐CM6‐1

A Voldoire, D Saint‐Martin, S Sénési… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes the main characteristics of CNRM‐CM6‐1, the fully coupled
atmosphere‐ocean general circulation model of sixth generation jointly developed by …

Extremes become routine in an emerging new Arctic

L Landrum, MM Holland - Nature Climate Change, 2020 - nature.com
The Arctic is rapidly warming and experiencing tremendous changes in sea ice, ocean and
terrestrial regions. Lack of long-term scientific observations makes it difficult to assess …

Arctic amplification is caused by sea-ice loss under increasing CO2

A Dai, D Luo, M Song, J Liu - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Warming in the Arctic has been much faster than the rest of the world in both observations
and model simulations, a phenomenon known as the Arctic amplification (AA) whose cause …

Elevation-dependent warming in mountain regions of the world

Nature climate change, 2015 - nature.com
There is growing evidence that the rate of warming is amplified with elevation, such that high-
mountain environments experience more rapid changes in temperature than environments …