Global effects of climate change in the South China Sea and its surrounding areas

S Yang, D Chen, K Deng - Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, 2024 - spj.science.org
Climate change in the South China Sea and its surrounding areas (SCSSA), which include
the Indo-Pacific Oceans, Southeast Asia, and the Tibetan Plateau, could exert profound …

New insights into air-sea fluxes and their role in Subantarctic Mode Water formation

V Tamsitt - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The formation of Subantarctic Mode Water SAMW in the Southern Ocean plays a key role in
the global oceanic uptake and storage of anthropogenic heat and carbon. Wintertime ocean …

Extreme warm events in the South Orkney Islands, Southern Ocean: Compounding influence of atmospheric rivers and föhn conditions

H Lu, A Orr, J King, T Phillips, E Gilbert… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme warm events in the South Orkney Islands (SOIs) are investigated using synoptic
observations from Signy and Orcadas stations for 1947–1994 and 1956–2019 respectively …

Impact of zonal and meridional atmospheric flow on surface climate and extremes in the Southern Hemisphere

G Boschat, A Purich, I Rudeva, J Arblaster - Journal of Climate, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) describes the annular or zonal component of
the large-scale atmospheric circulation in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) extratropics and …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale drivers of the exceptionally low winter Antarctic sea ice extent in 2023

M Ionita - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The year 2023 marked a turning point for the Antarctic region as the Southern Hemisphere
experienced a significant reduction in its sea ice extent, with a record-breaking sea ice …

Evaluating the seasonal responses of southern ocean sea surface temperature to Southern Annular Mode in CMIP6 models

Y Hu, W Tian, Y Dong, J Zhang - Geophysical Research Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Using observations and CMIP6 historical simulations, the seasonal responses of Southern
Ocean (50° S–70° S) sea surface temperature (SST) to Southern Annular Mode (SAM) …

How Does the Southern Annular Mode Control Surface Melt in East Antarctica?

D Saunderson, AN Mackintosh… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Surface melt in East Antarctica is strongly correlated with the Southern Annular
Mode (SAM) index, but the spatiotemporal variability of the relationship, and the physical …

West-warming East-cooling trend over Antarctica reversed since early 21st century driven by large-scale circulation variation

M Xin, KR Clem, J Turner… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Antarctic climate changes prior to 2000 were characterized by a strong zonally asymmetric
pattern. Over 90% of the land ice mass loss occurred around a limited area in West …

Southern Hemisphere storm tracks and large-scale variability: what do the latest reanalyses say?

I Campbell, JA Renwick - Journal of Climate, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
In this study, we explore linkages between the monthly mean 500 hPa height field (Z500)
and its high-frequency variability over 2–8-day periods, a proxy for Southern Hemisphere …

Zonal Wavenumber 3 forces extreme precipitation in South America

V Ortiz-Guzmán, M Jucker, SC Sherwood - Journal of Climate, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Southern Hemisphere climate and weather are affected by several modes of
variability and climate phenomena across different time and spatial scales. An additional key …