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 …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change, health and existential risks to civilization: A comprehensive review (1989–2013)

CD Butler - International journal of environmental research and …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Background: Anthropogenic global warming, interacting with social and other environmental
determinants, constitutes a profound health risk. This paper reports a comprehensive …

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 …

Minimal influence of reduced Arctic sea ice on coincident cold winters in mid-latitudes

R Blackport, JA Screen, K van der Wiel… - Nature climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Observations show that reduced regional sea-ice cover is coincident with cold mid-latitude
winters on interannual timescales. However, it remains unclear whether these observed …

Why super sandstorm 2021 in North China?

Z Yin, Y Wan, Y Zhang, H Wang - National science review, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Severe sandstorms reoccurred in the spring of 2021 after an absence for more than 10 years
in North China. The dust source area, located in Mongolia, suffered destructive cooling and …

Insignificant effect of Arctic amplification on the amplitude of midlatitude atmospheric waves

R Blackport, JA Screen - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
Whether Arctic amplification has contributed to a wavier circulation and more frequent
extreme weather in midlatitudes remains an open question. For two to three decades …

The 2020 Siberian heat wave

JE Overland, M Wang - 2021 - repository.library.noaa.gov
Siberia saw a heat wave of extreme monthly temperatures of+ 6° C anomalies from January
through May 2020, culminating with near daily temperature records at the Arctic station of …

Seasonal cumulative effect of Ural blocking episodes on the frequent cold events in China during the early winter of 2020/21

Y Yao, W Zhang, D Luo, L Zhong, L Pei - Advances in Atmospheric …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Starting in mid-November, China was hit by several cold events during the early
winter of 2020/21. The lowest temperature observed at Beijing station on 7 January …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Association of extreme heat and cardiovascular mortality in the United States: a county-level longitudinal analysis from 2008 to 2017

SAM Khatana, RM Werner, PW Groeneveld - Circulation, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Extreme-heat events are increasing as a result of climate change. Prior studies,
typically limited to urban settings, suggest an association between extreme heat and …