Arctic Summer Sea Ice Melt and Related Atmospheric Conditions in Coupled Regional Climate Model Simulations and Observations

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
• Main Authors: Rinke, A., Knudsen, Erlend M., Mewes, D., Dorn, W., Handorf, D., Dethloff, K., Moore, J. C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; atmospheric circulation; regional climate modeling; sea ice; /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/1/17/1; name=Geosciences; /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/1/17/2; name=Environmental sciences; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; Kara Sea; Taymyr; Sea ice; Taymyr Peninsula; Siberia
• Online Access: https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/38cd1ebc-7047-4a75-a687-f60b20a8aa2f; https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD030207; https://lacris.ulapland.fi/ws/files/5950718/rinke2019JGR.pdf; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067465353&partnerID=8YFLogxK; http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85067465353&partnerID=8YFLogxK

Observations from 1979 to 2014 show a positive trend in the summer sea ice melt rate with an acceleration particularly in June and August. This is associated with atmospheric circulation changes such as a tendency toward a dipole pattern in the mean sea level pressure (SLP) trend with an increase ov...