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, Di Battista, Stefano, Favier, Vincent, Francis, Diana, Fraser, Alexander D., Fourré, Elise, Garreaud, René D., Genthon, Christophe, Gorodetskaya, Irina V., González-Herrero, Sergi, Heinrich, Victoria J., Hubert, Guillaume, Joos, Hanna, Kim, Seong-Joong, King, John C., Kittel, Christoph, Landais, Amaelle, Lazzara, Matthew, Leonard, Gregory H., Lieser, Jan L., Maclennan, Michelle, Mikolajczyk, David, Neff, Peter, Ollivier, Inès, Sprenger, Michael, Trusel, Luke, Udy, Danielle, Vance, Tessa, Vignon, Étienne, Walker, Catherine, Weaver, Nander, Zou, Xun
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Meteorological Society 2024
• Subjects: Antarctic; Concordia Station; East Antarctica; Indian; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/536267/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/536267/1/clim-JCLI-D-23-0175.1.pdf; https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/aop/JCLI-D-23-0175.1/JCLI-D-23-0175.1.xml

Between 15 and 19 March 2022, East Antarctica experienced an exceptional heat wave with widespread 30°–40°C 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 −9.4°C on 18 March...