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 …

Polar regions

MP Meredith, M Sommerkorn… - The ocean and …, 2019 - research.monash.edu
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

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 …

[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 …

Process drivers, inter-model spread, and the path forward: A review of amplified Arctic warming

PC Taylor, RC Boeke, LN Boisvert, N Feldl… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Arctic amplification (AA) is a coupled atmosphere-sea ice-ocean process. This
understanding has evolved from the early concept of AA, as a consequence of snow-ice line …

How do intermittency and simultaneous processes obfuscate the Arctic influence on midlatitude winter extreme weather events?

JE Overland, TJ Ballinger, J Cohen… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Pronounced changes in the Arctic environment add a new potential driver of anomalous
weather patterns in midlatitudes that affect billions of people. Recent studies of these …

Polar climate change as manifest in atmospheric circulation

JA Screen, TJ Bracegirdle, I Simmonds - Current Climate Change Reports, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Dynamic manifestations of climate change, ie those related to
circulation, are less well understood than are thermodynamic, or temperature-related …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of the global coupled climate response to Arctic sea ice loss during 1990–2090 and its contribution to climate change

L Sun, M Alexander, C Deser - Journal of Climate, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Alexander, MA, US Bhatt, JE Walsh, MS Timlin, JS Miller, and JD Scott, 2004: The
atmospheric response to realistic Arctic sea ice anomalies in an AGCM during winter. J …

Tropical climate responses to projected Arctic and Antarctic sea-ice loss

MR England, LM Polvani, L Sun, C Deser - Nature Geoscience, 2020 - nature.com
Arctic and Antarctic sea-ice extent are both projected to dramatically decline over the coming
century. The effects of Arctic sea-ice loss are not limited to the northern high latitudes, and …