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 …

Sudden stratospheric warmings

MP Baldwin, B Ayarzagüena, T Birner… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) are impressive fluid dynamical events in which
large and rapid temperature increases in the winter polar stratosphere (∼ 10–50 km) are …

Linking Arctic variability and change with extreme winter weather in the United States

J Cohen, L Agel, M Barlow, CI Garfinkel, I White - Science, 2021 - science.org
The Arctic is warming at a rate twice the global average and severe winter weather is
reported to be increasing across many heavily populated mid-latitude regions, but there is …

Weakening of the stratospheric polar vortex by Arctic sea-ice loss

BM Kim, SW Son, SK Min, JH Jeong, SJ Kim… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Successive cold winters of severely low temperatures in recent years have had critical social
and economic impacts on the mid-latitude continents in the Northern Hemisphere. Although …

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 …

Snow–atmosphere coupling in the Northern Hemisphere

GR Henderson, Y Peings, JC Furtado… - Nature Climate …, 2018 - nature.com
Local and remote impacts of seasonal snow cover on atmospheric circulation have been
explored extensively, with observational and modelling efforts focusing on how Eurasian …

Using causal effect networks to analyze different Arctic drivers of midlatitude winter circulation

M Kretschmer, D Coumou, JF Donges… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
In recent years, the Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes have suffered from severe winters
like the extreme 2012/13 winter in the eastern United States. These cold spells were linked …

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 …

Arctic warming, increasing snow cover and widespread boreal winter cooling

JL Cohen, JC Furtado, MA Barlow… - Environmental …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The most up to date consensus from global climate models predicts warming in the Northern
Hemisphere (NH) high latitudes to middle latitudes during boreal winter. However, recent …

Seasonal climate predictability and forecasting: status and prospects

FJ Doblas‐Reyes, J García‐Serrano… - Wiley …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Seasonal climate forecasts occupy an intermediate zone between weather forecasting and
climate projections. They share with the numerical weather prediction the difficulty of …