Projections of an ice-free Arctic Ocean

A Jahn, MM Holland, JE Kay - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Observed Arctic sea ice losses are a sentinel of anthropogenic climate change. These
reductions are projected to continue with ongoing warming, ultimately leading to an ice-free …

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 …

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 …

Observationally-constrained projections of an ice-free Arctic even under a low emission scenario

YH Kim, SK Min, NP Gillett, D Notz… - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
The sixth assessment report of the IPCC assessed that the Arctic is projected to be on
average practically ice-free in September near mid-century under intermediate and high …

Polar regions

MP Meredith, M Sommerkorn… - The ocean and …, 2019 - research.monash.edu
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

Human influence on the climate system (Chapter 3)

V Eyring, NP Gillett, KM Achuta Rao, R Barimalala… - 2021 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
The AR5 concluded that human influence on the climate system is clear, evident from
increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, positive radiative forcing …

Arctic sea ice in CMIP6

D Notz, S Community - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We examine CMIP6 simulations of Arctic sea‐ice area and volume. We find that CMIP6
models produce a wide spread of mean Arctic sea‐ice area, capturing the observational …

The Meteorological Research Institute Earth System Model version 2.0, MRI-ESM2. 0: Description and basic evaluation of the physical component

S Yukimoto, H Kawai, T Koshiro, N Oshima… - Journal of the …, 2019 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Abstract The new Meteorological Research Institute Earth System Model version 2.0 (MRI-
ESM2. 0) has been developed based on previous models, MRI-CGCM3 and MRI-ESM1 …

More frequent atmospheric rivers slow the seasonal recovery of Arctic sea ice

P Zhang, G Chen, M Ting, L Ruby Leung… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
In recent decades, Arctic sea-ice coverage underwent a drastic decline in winter, when sea
ice is expected to recover following the melting season. It is unclear to what extent …

Changing state of Arctic sea ice across all seasons

J Stroeve, D Notz - Environmental Research Letters, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The decline in the floating sea ice cover in the Arctic is one of the most striking
manifestations of climate change. In this review, we examine this ongoing loss of Arctic sea …