Record-high Antarctic Peninsula temperatures and surface melt in February 2022: a compound event with an intense atmospheric river

IV Gorodetskaya, C Durán-Alarcón… - npj climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Antarctic Peninsula (AP) experienced a new extreme warm event and record-
high surface melt in February 2022, rivaling the recent temperature records from 2015 and …

Why Does Arctic Sea Ice Respond More Evidently than Antarctic Sea Ice to Climate Change?

M Shokr, Y Ye - Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, 2023 - spj.science.org
The current climate change episode has impacted sea ice in the 2 polar regions differently.
In the Arctic, remarkable sea ice extent and thickness declines have been observed with a …

[HTML][HTML] Hemispheric contrasts in ice formation in stratiform mixed-phase clouds: disentangling the role of aerosol and dynamics with ground-based remote sensing

M Radenz, J Bühl, P Seifert, H Baars… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Multi-year ground-based remote-sensing datasets were acquired with the Leipzig Aerosol
and Cloud Remote Observations System (LACROS) at three sites. A highly polluted central …

SIPN South: six years of coordinated seasonal Antarctic sea ice predictions

F Massonnet, S Barreira, A Barthélemy… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Antarctic sea ice prediction has garnered increasing attention in recent years, particularly in
the context of the recent record lows of February 2022 and 2023. As Antarctica becomes a …

Identifying cloud droplets beyond lidar attenuation from vertically pointing cloud radar observations using artificial neural networks

W Schimmel, H Kalesse-Los, M Maahn… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - amt.copernicus.org
In mixed-phase clouds, the variable mass ratio between liquid water and ice as well as the
spatial distribution within the cloud plays an important role in cloud lifetime, precipitation …

Strong warming over the Antarctic Peninsula during combined atmospheric river and foehn events: contribution of shortwave radiation and turbulence

X Zou, PM Rowe, I Gorodetskaya… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Antarctica Peninsula (AP) has experienced more frequent and intense surface
melting recently, jeopardizing the stability of ice shelves and ultimately leading to ice loss …

The Use of Weather, Water, Ice, and Climate (WWIC) Information in the Polar Regions: What Is Known after the Decadelong Polar Prediction Project?

VJ Heinrich, EJ Stewart, D Liggett… - Weather, Climate …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
The polar regions are facing a wide range of compounding challenges, from climate change
to increased human activity. Infrastructure, rescue services, and disaster response …

Impact of downward longwave radiative deficits on Antarctic sea-ice extent predictability during the sea ice growth period

I Cerovečki, R Sun, DH Bromwich, X Zou… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Forecasting Antarctic atmospheric, oceanic, and sea ice conditions on subseasonal to
seasonal scales remains a major challenge. During both the freezing and melting seasons …

[HTML][HTML] The PANDA automatic weather station network between the coast and Dome A, East Antarctica

M Ding, X Zou, Q Sun, D Yang, W Zhang… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
This paper introduces a unique multiyear dataset and the monitoring capability of the
PANDA automatic weather station network, which includes 11 automatic weather stations …

Association between extreme atmospheric anomalies over Antarctic sea ice, Southern Ocean polar cyclones and atmospheric rivers

E Hepworth, G Messori, M Vichi - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study analyses the association of Southern Ocean extratropical cyclones and
atmospheric rivers (ARs) with extreme temperature and/or moisture atmospheric anomalies …