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 …

Effects of Arctic sea ice decline on weather and climate: A review

T Vihma - Surveys in Geophysics, 2014 - Springer
The areal extent, concentration and thickness of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean and adjacent
seas have strongly decreased during the recent decades, but cold, snow-rich winters have …

Windows of opportunity for skillful forecasts subseasonal to seasonal and beyond

A Mariotti, C Baggett, EA Barnes… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
There is high demand and a growing expectation for predictions of environmental conditions
that go beyond 0–14-day weather forecasts with outlooks extending to one or more seasons …

Robust Arctic sea-ice influence on the frequent Eurasian cold winters in past decades

M Mori, M Watanabe, H Shiogama, J Inoue… - Nature Geoscience, 2014 - nature.com
Over the past decade, severe winters occurred frequently in mid-latitude Eurasia,, despite
increasing global-and annual-mean surface air temperatures. Observations suggest that …

[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 …

Processes and impacts of Arctic amplification: A research synthesis

MC Serreze, RG Barry - Global and planetary change, 2011 - Elsevier
The past decade has seen substantial advances in understanding Arctic amplification—that
trends and variability in surface air temperature tend to be larger in the Arctic region than for …

Impact of declining Arctic sea ice on winter snowfall

J Liu, JA Curry, H Wang, M Song, RM Horton - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - pnas.org
While the Arctic region has been warming strongly in recent decades, anomalously large
snowfall in recent winters has affected large parts of North America, Europe, and east Asia …

Recent Arctic amplification and extreme mid-latitude weather

J Cohen, JA Screen, JC Furtado, M Barlow… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The Arctic region has warmed more than twice as fast as the global average—a
phenomenon known as Arctic amplification. The rapid Arctic warming has contributed to …

The melting Arctic and midlatitude weather patterns: Are they connected?

J Overland, JA Francis, R Hall, E Hanna… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
The potential of recent Arctic changes to influence hemispheric weather is a complex and
controversial topic with considerable uncertainty, as time series of potential linkages are …

The role of the Barents Sea in the Arctic climate system

LH Smedsrud, I Esau, RB Ingvaldsen… - Reviews of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Present global warming is amplified in the Arctic and accompanied by unprecedented sea
ice decline. Located along the main pathway of Atlantic Water entering the Arctic, the …