Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole and Third Pole: Trends, mechanisms and consequences

Q You, Z Cai, N Pepin, D Chen, B Ahrens, Z Jiang… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole (AP hereafter) and Third Pole (Tibetan Plateau,
TP hereafter) can trigger a series of climate responses and have global consequences …

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 …

Linking Arctic variability and change with extreme winter weather in the United States

J Cohen, L Agel, M Barlow, CI Garfinkel, I White - Science, 2021 - science.org
The Arctic is warming at a rate twice the global average and severe winter weather is
reported to be increasing across many heavily populated mid-latitude regions, but there is …

Robust but weak winter atmospheric circulation response to future Arctic sea ice loss

DM Smith, R Eade, MB Andrews, H Ayres… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The possibility that Arctic sea ice loss weakens mid-latitude westerlies, promoting more
severe cold winters, has sparked more than a decade of scientific debate, with apparent …

Why super sandstorm 2021 in North China?

Z Yin, Y Wan, Y Zhang, H Wang - National science review, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Severe sandstorms reoccurred in the spring of 2021 after an absence for more than 10 years
in North China. The dust source area, located in Mongolia, suffered destructive cooling and …

Warm Arctic episodes linked with increased frequency of extreme winter weather in the United States

J Cohen, K Pfeiffer, JA Francis - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Recent boreal winters have exhibited a large-scale seesaw temperature pattern
characterized by an unusually warm Arctic and cold continents. Whether there is any …

Consistency and discrepancy in the atmospheric response to Arctic sea-ice loss across climate models

JA Screen, C Deser, DM Smith, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The decline of Arctic sea ice is an integral part of anthropogenic climate change. Sea-ice
loss is already having a significant impact on Arctic communities and ecosystems. Its role as …

Scientists' warning on wildfire—a Canadian perspective

SCP Coogan, FN Robinne, P Jain… - Canadian Journal of …, 2019 - cdnsciencepub.com
Recently, the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: a Second Notice was issued in
response to ongoing and largely unabated environmental degradation due to anthropogenic …

Nonlinear response of mid-latitude weather to the changing Arctic

JE Overland, K Dethloff, JA Francis, RJ Hall… - Nature Climate …, 2016 - nature.com
Are continuing changes in the Arctic influencing wind patterns and the occurrence of
extreme weather events in northern mid-latitudes? The chaotic nature of atmospheric …

[HTML][HTML] The Polar Amplification Model Intercomparison Project (PAMIP) contribution to CMIP6: investigating the causes and consequences of polar amplification

DM Smith, JA Screen, C Deser, J Cohen… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
Polar amplification–the phenomenon where external radiative forcing produces a larger
change in surface temperature at high latitudes than the global average–is a key aspect of …