Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole and Third Pole: Trends, mechanisms and consequences

Q You, Z Cai, N Pepin, D Chen, B Ahrens, Z Jiang… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole (AP hereafter) and Third Pole (Tibetan Plateau,
TP hereafter) can trigger a series of climate responses and have global consequences …

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 …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

Arctic amplification is caused by sea-ice loss under increasing CO2

A Dai, D Luo, M Song, J Liu - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Warming in the Arctic has been much faster than the rest of the world in both observations
and model simulations, a phenomenon known as the Arctic amplification (AA) whose cause …

Extreme weather events in early summer 2018 connected by a recurrent hemispheric wave-7 pattern

K Kornhuber, S Osprey, D Coumou… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The summer of 2018 witnessed a number of extreme weather events such as heatwaves in
North America, Western Europe and the Caspian Sea region, and rainfall extremes in South …

How unprecedented was the February 2021 Texas cold snap?

J Doss-Gollin, DJ Farnham, U Lall… - Environmental Research …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Winter storm Uri brought severe cold to the southern United States in February 2021,
causing a cascading failure of interdependent systems in Texas where infrastructure was not …

Two distinct influences of Arctic warming on cold winters over North America and East Asia

JS Kug, JH Jeong, YS Jang, BM Kim, CK Folland… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Arctic warming has sparked a growing interest because of its possible impacts on mid-
latitude climate,,,,. A number of unusually harsh cold winters have occurred in many parts of …

Contribution of changes in atmospheric circulation patterns to extreme temperature trends

DE Horton, NC Johnson, D Singh, DL Swain… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Surface weather conditions are closely governed by the large-scale circulation of the Earth's
atmosphere. Recent increases in the occurrence of some extreme weather phenomena …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence for a wavier jet stream in response to rapid Arctic warming

JA Francis, SJ Vavrus - Environmental Research Letters, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
New metrics and evidence are presented that support a linkage between rapid Arctic
warming, relative to Northern hemisphere mid-latitudes, and more frequent high-amplitude …

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 …