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 Arctic sea ice across all seasons

J Stroeve, D Notz - Environmental Research Letters, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The decline in the floating sea ice cover in the Arctic is one of the most striking
manifestations of climate change. In this review, we examine this ongoing loss of Arctic sea …

The influence of Arctic amplification on mid-latitude summer circulation

D Coumou, G Di Capua, S Vavrus, L Wang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Accelerated warming in the Arctic, as compared to the rest of the globe, might have profound
impacts on mid-latitude weather. Most studies analyzing Arctic links to mid-latitude weather …

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 …

Arctic sea ice trends, variability and implications for seasonal ice forecasting

MC Serreze, J Stroeve - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
September Arctic sea ice extent over the period of satellite observations has a strong
downward trend, accompanied by pronounced interannual variability with a detrended 1 …

The Arctic's sea ice cover: trends, variability, predictability, and comparisons to the Antarctic

MC Serreze, WN Meier - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
As assessed over the period of satellite observations, October 1978 to present, there are
downward linear trends in Arctic sea ice extent for all months, largest at the end of the melt …

State of the climate in 2015

J Blunden, DS Arndt - Bulletin of the American Meteorological …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2015 Page 1 Special Supplement to the Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society Vol. 97, No. 8, August 2016 STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2015 Brought …

The extreme melt across the Greenland ice sheet in 2012

SV Nghiem, DK Hall, TL Mote… - Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of the 2012 extreme melt event across almost the entire surface of the
Greenland ice sheet is presented. Data from three different satellite sensors–including the …

Observing and modeling ice sheet surface mass balance

JTM Lenaerts, B Medley… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Surface mass balance (SMB) provides mass input to the surface of the Antarctic and
Greenland Ice Sheets and therefore comprises an important control on ice sheet mass …

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 …