Divergent consensuses on Arctic amplification influence on midlatitude severe winter weather

J Cohen, X Zhang, J Francis, T Jung, R Kwok… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
The Arctic has warmed more than twice as fast as the global average since the late twentieth
century, a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification (AA). Recently, there have been …

Local and remote atmospheric circulation drivers of Arctic change: A review

GR Henderson, BS Barrett, LJ Wachowicz… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Arctic Amplification is a fundamental feature of past, present, and modelled future climate.
However, the causes of this “amplification” within Earth's climate system are not fully …

Steady threefold Arctic amplification of externally forced warming masked by natural variability

W Zhou, LR Leung, J Lu - Nature Geoscience, 2024 - nature.com
Arctic amplification—the amplified surface warming in the Arctic relative to the globe—is a
robust feature of climate change. However, there is a considerable spread in the reported …

Minimal influence of reduced Arctic sea ice on coincident cold winters in mid-latitudes

R Blackport, JA Screen, K van der Wiel… - Nature climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Observations show that reduced regional sea-ice cover is coincident with cold mid-latitude
winters on interannual timescales. However, it remains unclear whether these observed …

The role of moist intrusions in winter Arctic warming and sea ice decline

C Woods, R Caballero - Journal of Climate, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
This paper examines the trajectories followed by intense intrusions of moist air into the Arctic
polar region during autumn and winter and their impact on local temperature and sea ice …

Recent autumn sea ice loss in the eastern Arctic enhanced by summer Asian-Pacific Oscillation

B Zhou, Z Song, Z Yin, X Xu, B Sun, P Hsu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent rapid Arctic sea ice loss was documented as combined results from anthropogenic
forcing and climate system internal variability. However, the role of internal variability is not …

Evolution of the global coupled climate response to Arctic sea ice loss during 1990–2090 and its contribution to climate change

L Sun, M Alexander, C Deser - Journal of Climate, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
The role of transient Arctic sea ice loss in the projected greenhouse gas–induced late-
twentieth-to late-twenty-first-century climate change is investigated using the Geophysical …

The role of interdecadal climate oscillations in driving Arctic atmospheric river trends

W Ma, H Wang, G Chen, LR Leung, J Lu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Atmospheric rivers (ARs), intrusions of warm and moist air, can effectively drive weather
extremes over the Arctic and trigger subsequent impact on sea ice and climate. What …

Revisiting the cause of the 1989–2009 Arctic surface warming using the surface energy budget: Downward infrared radiation dominates the surface fluxes

S Lee, T Gong, SB Feldstein, JA Screen… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The Arctic has been warming faster than elsewhere, especially during the cold season.
According to the leading theory, ice‐albedo feedback warms the Arctic Ocean during the …

Atmospheric river impacts on Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance

KS Mattingly, TL Mote, X Fettweis - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) mass loss has accelerated since the turn of the twenty‐
first century. Several recent episodes of rapid GrIS ablation coincided with intense moisture …