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 …

Blocking and its response to climate change

T Woollings, D Barriopedro, J Methven, SW Son… - Current climate change …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Atmospheric blocking events represent some of the most high-
impact weather patterns in the mid-latitudes, yet they have often been a cause for concern in …

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 …

Extreme weather and climate events in northern areas: A review

JE Walsh, TJ Ballinger, ES Euskirchen, E Hanna… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The greatest impacts of climate change on ecosystems, wildlife and humans often arise from
extreme events rather than changes in climatic means. Northern high latitudes, including the …

Towards a rain-dominated Arctic

R Bintanja, O Andry - Nature Climate Change, 2017 - nature.com
Climate models project a strong increase in Arctic precipitation over the coming century,
which has been attributed primarily to enhanced surface evaporation associated with sea …

Two distinct influences of Arctic warming on cold winters over North America and East Asia

JS Kug, JH Jeong, YS Jang, BM Kim, CK Folland… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Arctic warming has sparked a growing interest because of its possible impacts on mid-
latitude climate,,,,. A number of unusually harsh cold winters have occurred in many parts of …

Contribution of changes in atmospheric circulation patterns to extreme temperature trends

DE Horton, NC Johnson, D Singh, DL Swain… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Surface weather conditions are closely governed by the large-scale circulation of the Earth's
atmosphere. Recent increases in the occurrence of some extreme weather phenomena …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence for a wavier jet stream in response to rapid Arctic warming

JA Francis, SJ Vavrus - Environmental Research Letters, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
New metrics and evidence are presented that support a linkage between rapid Arctic
warming, relative to Northern hemisphere mid-latitudes, and more frequent high-amplitude …

A review of recent advances in research on extreme heat events

RM Horton, JS Mankin, C Lesk, E Coffel… - Current Climate Change …, 2016 - Springer
Reviewing recent literature, we report that changes in extreme heat event characteristics
such as magnitude, frequency, and duration are highly sensitive to changes in mean global …

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 …