Analysis of the warmest Arctic winter, 2015–2016 ...
December through February 2015–2016 defines the warmest winter season over the Arctic in the observational record. Positive 2 m temperature anomalies were focused over regions of reduced sea ice cover in the Kara and Barents Seas and southwestern Alaska. A third region is found over the ice-covered...
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ftdatacite:10.13016/m21lwd-eqde 2023-08-27T04:07:08+02:00 Analysis of the warmest Arctic winter, 2015–2016 ... Cullather, Richard I. Lim, Young-Kwon Boisvert, Linette N. Brucker, Ludovic Lee, Jae N. Nowicki, Sophie M. J. 2016 https://dx.doi.org/10.13016/m21lwd-eqde https://mdsoar.org/handle/11603/28608 unknown AGU Public Domain Mark 1.0 This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ article CreativeWork 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.13016/m21lwd-eqde 2023-08-07T08:43:53Z December through February 2015–2016 defines the warmest winter season over the Arctic in the observational record. Positive 2 m temperature anomalies were focused over regions of reduced sea ice cover in the Kara and Barents Seas and southwestern Alaska. A third region is found over the ice-covered central Arctic Ocean. The period is marked by a strong synoptic pattern which produced melting temperatures in close proximity to the North Pole in late December and anomalous high pressure near the Taymyr Peninsula. Atmospheric teleconnections from the Atlantic contributed to warming over Eurasian high-latitude land surfaces, and El Niño-related teleconnections explain warming over southwestern Alaska and British Columbia, while warm anomalies over the central Arctic are associated with physical processes including the presence of enhanced atmospheric water vapor and an increased downwelling longwave radiative flux. Preconditioning of sea ice conditions by warm temperatures affected the ensuing spring extent. ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean North Pole Sea ice Taymyr Taymyr Peninsula Alaska DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Arctic Ocean North Pole Taymyr ENVELOPE(89.987,89.987,68.219,68.219) |
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December through February 2015–2016 defines the warmest winter season over the Arctic in the observational record. Positive 2 m temperature anomalies were focused over regions of reduced sea ice cover in the Kara and Barents Seas and southwestern Alaska. A third region is found over the ice-covered central Arctic Ocean. The period is marked by a strong synoptic pattern which produced melting temperatures in close proximity to the North Pole in late December and anomalous high pressure near the Taymyr Peninsula. Atmospheric teleconnections from the Atlantic contributed to warming over Eurasian high-latitude land surfaces, and El Niño-related teleconnections explain warming over southwestern Alaska and British Columbia, while warm anomalies over the central Arctic are associated with physical processes including the presence of enhanced atmospheric water vapor and an increased downwelling longwave radiative flux. Preconditioning of sea ice conditions by warm temperatures affected the ensuing spring extent. ... |
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Cullather, Richard I. Lim, Young-Kwon Boisvert, Linette N. Brucker, Ludovic Lee, Jae N. Nowicki, Sophie M. J. |
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Cullather, Richard I. Lim, Young-Kwon Boisvert, Linette N. Brucker, Ludovic Lee, Jae N. Nowicki, Sophie M. J. Analysis of the warmest Arctic winter, 2015–2016 ... |
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Analysis of the warmest Arctic winter, 2015–2016 ... |
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