NOAA Arctic Report Card 2023 : Precipitation ...

• Main Authors: Walsh, J. E., Bigalke, S., McAfee, S. A., Lader, R., Serreze, M. C., Ballinger, T. J.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: NOAA Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program 2023
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25923/hcm7-az41; https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/56614

NOAA Technical Report OAR ARC; 23-04 ... : Consistent with Arctic warming (see essay Surface Air Temperature), precipitation in the Arctic is increasing (Box et al. 2021). As shown in the 2022 Arctic Report Card and updated here (Fig. 1), the increase of pan-Arctic mean precipitation is apparent in all seasons (Walsh et al. 2022). However, trends in Arctic precipitation vary regionally (Ye et al. 2021; Yu and Zhong 2021) and interannual variability is large. These variations have important implications for wildfire season severity and for river and lake levels. Warming is also leading to a transition from solid to liquid precipitation in the warmer parts of the Arctic (Box et al. 2021), although the coldest areas of the Arctic are expected to see snowfall increases in the future (McCrystall et al. 2021; Bigalke and Walsh 2022). ...