Trends and variability in polar sea ice, global atmospheric circulations, and baroclinicity

I Simmonds, M Li - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze the polar sea ice distribution and the global sea level pressure (SLP) and
baroclinicity distributions over the “satellite” period of 1979–2020. In the Arctic, there are …

Constraining the date of a seasonally ice‐free Arctic using a simple model

DB Bonan, T Schneider, I Eisenman… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
State‐of‐the‐art climate models simulate a large spread in the projected decline of Arctic
sea‐ice area (SIA) over the 21st century. Here we diagnose causes of this intermodel …

Discrepancies between observations and climate models of large-scale wind-driven Greenland melt influence sea-level rise projections

D Topál, Q Ding, TJ Ballinger, E Hanna… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
While climate models project that Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) melt will continue to accelerate
with climate change, models exhibit limitations in capturing observed connections between …

Assessing Arctic wetting: Performances of CMIP6 models and projections of precipitation changes

Z Cai, Q You, HW Chen, R Zhang, Z Zuo, D Chen… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - Elsevier
The Arctic region is experiencing a notable increase in precipitation, known as Arctic
wetting, amidst the backdrop of Arctic warming. This phenomenon has implications for the …

Benchmarking performance changes in the simulation of extratropical modes of variability across CMIP generations

J Lee, KR Sperber, PJ Gleckler, KE Taylor… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
We evaluate extratropical modes of variability in the three most recent phases of the
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6) to gauge improvement …

Observed winds crucial for September Arctic sea ice loss

LA Roach… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Arctic sea ice has declined strikingly over the past 40 years under climate change. The
physical processes driving these changes and the relative roles of external forcing versus …

Subseasonal strength reversal of the East Asian winter monsoon

W Zhong, Z Wu - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
As one of the most significant circulation systems over the Northern Hemisphere in the cold
season, the East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) has been broadly investigated from the …

China's recent progresses in polar climate change and its interactions with the global climate system

X Li, X Chen, B Wu, X Cheng, M Ding, R Lei… - … in Atmospheric Sciences, 2023 - Springer
During the recent four decades since 1980, a series of modern climate satellites were
launched, allowing for the measurement and record-keeping of multiple climate parameters …

An optimal atmospheric circulation mode in the Arctic favoring strong Summertime Sea ice melting and ice–albedo feedback

I Baxter, Q Ding - Journal of Climate, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
The rapid decline of summer Arctic sea ice over the past few decades has been driven by a
combination of increasing greenhouse gases and internal variability of the climate system …

Clear-sky direct aerosol radiative forcing uncertainty associated with aerosol optical properties based on CMIP6 models

L Zhang, J Li, Z Jiang, Y Dong, T Ying… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
The direct perturbation of anthropogenic aerosols on Earth's energy balance [ie, direct
aerosol radiative forcing (DARF)] remains uncertain in climate models. These uncertainties …