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 …

Consistency and discrepancy in the atmospheric response to Arctic sea-ice loss across climate models

JA Screen, C Deser, DM Smith, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The decline of Arctic sea ice is an integral part of anthropogenic climate change. Sea-ice
loss is already having a significant impact on Arctic communities and ecosystems. Its role as …

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 …

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… - 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 …

Influence of low Arctic sea‐ice minima on anomalously cold Eurasian winters

M Honda, J Inoue, S Yamane - Geophysical Research Letters, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Influence of low Arctic sea‐ice minima in early autumn on the wintertime climate over
Eurasia is investigated. Observational evidence shows that significant cold anomalies over …