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 …

Natural hazards and extreme events in the Baltic Sea region

A Rutgersson, E Kjellström, J Haapala… - Earth System …, 2021 - esd.copernicus.org
A natural hazard is a naturally occurring extreme event that has a negative effect on people
and society or the environment. Natural hazards may have severe implications for human …

How do intermittency and simultaneous processes obfuscate the Arctic influence on midlatitude winter extreme weather events?

JE Overland, TJ Ballinger, J Cohen… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Pronounced changes in the Arctic environment add a new potential driver of anomalous
weather patterns in midlatitudes that affect billions of people. Recent studies of these …

Extreme cold events from East Asia to North America in winter 2020/21: Comparisons, causes, and future implications

X Zhang, Y Fu, Z Han, JE Overland, A Rinke, H Tang… - 2022 - Springer
Three striking and impactful extreme cold weather events successively occurred across East
Asia and North America during the mid-winter of 2020/21. These events open a new window …

The jet stream and climate change

M Stendel, J Francis, R White, PD Williams… - Climate change, 2021 - Elsevier
Strong rivers of westerly winds, known as jet streams, are driven primarily by temperature
differences between low and high latitudes as well as the rotation of the Earth. The jet …

Midlatitude winter extreme temperature events and connections with anomalies in the Arctic and tropics

I Rudeva, I Simmonds - Journal of Climate, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
For the last few decades the Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes have seen an increasing
number of temperature extreme events. It has been suggested that some of these extremes …

Changes in air temperature and snow cover in winter in Poland

AM Tomczyk, E Bednorz, K Szyga-Pluta - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
The primary objective of the paper was to characterize the climatic conditions in the winter
season in Poland in the years 1966/67–2019/20. The study was based on daily values of …

Trends in cyclones in the high‐latitude North Atlantic during 1979–2016

S Wickström, MO Jonassen, T Vihma… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We report an increase in winter (DJF) cyclone densities in the areas around Svalbard and in
northwestern Barents Sea and a decrease in cyclone densities in southeastern Barents Sea …

[HTML][HTML] Dominant characteristics of early autumn Arctic sea ice variability and its impact on winter Eurasian climate

S Ding, B Wu, W Chen - Journal of Climate, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The present study investigated dominant characteristics of autumn Arctic sea ice
concentration (SIC) interannual variations and impacts of September–October (SO) mean …

Spatial variations in the warming trend and the transition to more severe weather in midlatitudes

F Estrada, D Kim, P Perron - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Due to various feedback processes called Arctic amplification, the high-latitudes' response
to increases in radiative forcing is much larger than elsewhere in the world, with a warming …