The impact of Arctic sea ice on the inter‐annual variations of summer Ural blocking

• Published in: International Journal of Climatology
• Main Authors: Zhang, Ruonan, Sun, Chenghu, Zhang, Renhe, Jia, Liwei, Li, Weijing
• Other Authors: National Natural Science Foundation of China
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Barents Sea; Stea; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.5731; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjoc.5731; https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/joc.5731

The influence of Arctic sea ice concentration (SIC) on the inter‐annual variations of the frequency of summertime Ural blocking (UB) during the period of 1980–2013 is investigated using observational and reanalysis data sets and version 5.0 of the Community Atmospheric Model. The results reveal that...