The Extraordinary March 2022 East Antarctica “Heat” Wave. Part I: Observations and Meteorological Drivers

• Published in: Journal of Climate
• Main Authors: Wille, Jonathan D., Alexander, Simon P., Amory, Charles, Baiman, Rebecca, Barthélemy, Léonard, Bergstrom, Dana M., Berne, Alexis, Binder, Hanin, Blanchet, Juliette, Bozkurt, Deniz, Bracegirdle, Thomas J., Casado, Mathieu, Choi, Taejin, Clem, Kyle R., Codron, Francis, Datta, Rajashree, Battista, Stefano di, Favier, Vincent, Francis, Diana, Fraser, Alexander D., Fourré, Elise, Garreaud, René D., Genthon, Christophe, Gorodetskaya, Irina, González Herrero, Sergi, Heinrich, Victoria J., Hubert, Guillaume, Joos, Hanna, Kim, Seong-Joong, King, John C., Kittel, Christoph, Landais, Amaelle, Lazzara, Matthew A., Leonard, Gregory H., Lieser, Jan L., Maclennan, Michelle, Mikolajczyk, David, Neff, Peter, Ollivier, Inès, Picard, Ghislain, Pohl, Benjamin, Ralph, F. Martin, Rowe, Penny M., Schlosser, Elisabeth, Shields, Christine A., Smith, Inga J., Sprenger, Michael, Trusel, Luke, Udy, Danielle, Vance, Tessa, Vignon, Étienne, Walker, Catherine, Wever, Nander, Zou, Xun
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2024
• Subjects: Antarctica; Atmospheric river; Extreme events; Climate records; Automatic weather stations; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Indian; Concordia Station; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/15763

Between 15 and 19 March 2022, East Antarctica experienced an exceptional heat wave with widespread 308–408C temperature anomalies across the ice sheet. This record-shattering event saw numerous monthly temperature records being broken including a new all-time temperature record of 29.48C on 18 March...