The December 2015 North Pole Warming Event and the Increasing Occurrence of Such Events

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Author: Moore, G. W. K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Midwinter; North Pole; Nordic Seas; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5157030/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27976745; https://doi.org/10.1038/srep39084

In late December 2015, widespread media interest revolved around forecasts that the surface air temperature at the North Pole would rise above freezing. Although there has been significant interest in the enhanced warming that is occurring at high northern latitudes, a process known as arctic amplif...