The changing seasonal climate in the Arctic
Ongoing and projected greenhouse warming clearly manifests itself in the Arctic regions, which warm faster than any other part of the world. One of the key features of amplified Arctic warming concerns Arctic winter warming (AWW), which exceeds summer warming by at least a factor of 4. Here we use o...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3609024 2023-05-15T13:10:46+02:00 The changing seasonal climate in the Arctic Bintanja, R. van der Linden, E. C. 2013-03-27 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3609024 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23532038 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep01556 en eng Nature Publishing Group http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3609024 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23532038 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep01556 Copyright © 2013, Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC-BY-NC-ND Article Text 2013 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1038/srep01556 2013-09-04T21:40:04Z Ongoing and projected greenhouse warming clearly manifests itself in the Arctic regions, which warm faster than any other part of the world. One of the key features of amplified Arctic warming concerns Arctic winter warming (AWW), which exceeds summer warming by at least a factor of 4. Here we use observation-driven reanalyses and state-of-the-art climate models in a variety of standardised climate change simulations to show that AWW is strongly linked to winter sea ice retreat through the associated release of surplus ocean heat gained in summer through the ice-albedo feedback (~25%), and to infrared radiation feedbacks (~75%). Arctic summer warming is surprisingly modest, even after summer sea ice has completely disappeared. Quantifying the seasonally varying changes in Arctic temperature and sea ice and the associated feedbacks helps to more accurately quantify the likelihood of Arctic's climate changes, and to assess their impact on local ecosystems and socio-economic activities. Text albedo Arctic Climate change Sea ice PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Scientific Reports 3 1 |
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Ongoing and projected greenhouse warming clearly manifests itself in the Arctic regions, which warm faster than any other part of the world. One of the key features of amplified Arctic warming concerns Arctic winter warming (AWW), which exceeds summer warming by at least a factor of 4. Here we use observation-driven reanalyses and state-of-the-art climate models in a variety of standardised climate change simulations to show that AWW is strongly linked to winter sea ice retreat through the associated release of surplus ocean heat gained in summer through the ice-albedo feedback (~25%), and to infrared radiation feedbacks (~75%). Arctic summer warming is surprisingly modest, even after summer sea ice has completely disappeared. Quantifying the seasonally varying changes in Arctic temperature and sea ice and the associated feedbacks helps to more accurately quantify the likelihood of Arctic's climate changes, and to assess their impact on local ecosystems and socio-economic activities. |
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