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 …

Atmospheric circulation as a source of uncertainty in climate change projections

TG Shepherd - Nature Geoscience, 2014 - nature.com
The evidence for anthropogenic climate change continues to strengthen, and concerns
about severe weather events are increasing. As a result, scientific interest is rapidly shifting …

Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change

TG Shepherd, E Boyd, RA Calel, SC Chapman… - Climatic change, 2018 - Springer
As climate change research becomes increasingly applied, the need for actionable
information is growing rapidly. A key aspect of this requirement is the representation of …

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 …

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 …

Impact of declining Arctic sea ice on winter snowfall

J Liu, JA Curry, H Wang, M Song… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
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 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 …

A link between reduced Barents‐Kara sea ice and cold winter extremes over northern continents

V Petoukhov, VA Semenov - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The recent overall Northern Hemisphere warming was accompanied by several severe
northern continental winters, as for example, extremely cold winter 2005–2006 in Europe …

Atlantic Ocean influence on a shift in European climate in the 1990s

RT Sutton, B Dong - Nature Geoscience, 2012 - nature.com
European climate exhibits variability on a wide range of timescales. Understanding the
nature and drivers of this variability is an essential step in developing robust climate …