Are recent wet northwestern European summers a response to sea ice retreat?
Since 2007, UK and northwestern (NW) European summers have been anomalously wet, with summer 2007 being notable for signifi-cant f looding in southern England. Arctic sea ice extent had record low values in September 2007 and 2012 (Parkinson & Comiso, 2013). To explore the potential impact of th...
Published in: | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |
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Main Authors: | , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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American Meteorological Society
2013
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Online Access: | https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/89174/ https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/89174/1/BAMS-Extremes-of-2012-Section-11.pdf |
Summary: | Since 2007, UK and northwestern (NW) European summers have been anomalously wet, with summer 2007 being notable for signifi-cant f looding in southern England. Arctic sea ice extent had record low values in September 2007 and 2012 (Parkinson & Comiso, 2013). To explore the potential impact of these changes in sea ice on precipitation, we carried out a set of numerical simulations of the high-resolution version of HadAM3 (Pope et al. 2000) driven with different sea surface temperature and sea ice boundary conditions |
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