Disentangling the mechanisms of equatorial Pacific climate change

SM Kang, Y Shin, H Kim, SP Xie, S Hu - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
Most state-of-art models project a reduced equatorial Pacific east-west temperature gradient
and a weakened Walker circulation under global warming. However, the causes of this …

The Weakening of the Stratospheric Polar Vortex and the Subsequent Surface Impacts as Consequences to Arctic Sea Ice Loss

YC Liang, YO Kwon, C Frankignoul… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study investigates the stratospheric response to Arctic sea ice loss and subsequent
near-surface impacts by analyzing 200-member coupled experiments using the Whole …

Impact of ocean heat transport on sea ice captured by a simple energy balance model

JR Aylmer, D Ferreira, DL Feltham - Communications Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Future projections of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice suffer from uncertainties largely associated
with inter-model spread. Ocean heat transport has been hypothesised as a source of this …

Sea ice loss, water vapor increases, and their interactions with atmospheric energy transport in driving seasonal polar amplification

PC Chung, N Feldl - Journal of Climate, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
The ice–albedo feedback associated with sea ice loss contributes to polar amplification,
while the water vapor feedback contributes to tropical amplification of surface warming …

Changes in Extreme Temperature and Precipitation over the Southern Extratropical Continents in Response to Antarctic Sea Ice Loss

Z Zhu, J Liu, M Song, Y Hu - Journal of Climate, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Current climate models project that Antarctic sea ice will decrease by the end of the twenty-
first century. Previous studies have suggested that Antarctic sea ice changes have impacts …

The emergence of a new wintertime Arctic energy balance regime

O Miyawaki, TA Shaw, MF Jansen - Environmental Research …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The modern Arctic climate during wintertime is characterized by sea-ice cover, a strong
surface temperature inversion, and the absence of convection. Correspondingly, the energy …

The effect of arctic sea‐ice loss on extratropical cyclones

S Hay, MDK Priestley, H Yu, JL Catto… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Taking advantage of the Polar Amplification Model Intercomparison Project simulations and
using a Lagrangian objective feature tracking algorithm, we determine the response of …

The Relative Importance of Antarctic Sea Ice Loss within the Response to Greenhouse Warming

S Hay, PJ Kushner - Journal of Climate, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
The response to Antarctic sea ice loss within a coupled modeling framework is examined in
comparison to the response to Arctic sea ice loss and within the context of general …

Assessing the Spurious Impacts of Ice-Constraining Methods on the Climate Response to Sea-Ice Loss using an Idealised Aquaplanet GCM

NT Lewis, MR England, JA Screen, R Geen… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Coupled climate model simulations designed to isolate the effects of Arctic sea-ice loss often
apply artificial heating, either directly to the ice or through modification of the surface albedo …

Correcting for artificial heat in coupled sea ice perturbation experiments

L Fraser-Leach, P Kushner… - Environmental Research …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A common approach to assessing how polar amplification affects lower latitude climate is to
perform coupled ocean-atmosphere experiments in which sea ice is perturbed to a future …