Atmospheric feedback explains disparate climate response to regional Arctic sea-ice loss
Arctic sea-ice loss is a consequence of anthropogenic global warming and can itself be a driver of climate change in the Arctic and at lower latitudes, with sea-ice minima likely favoring extreme events over Europe and North America. Yet the role that the sea-ice plays in ongoing climate change rema...
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ftupcatalunyair:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/345676 2023-05-15T14:26:01+02:00 Atmospheric feedback explains disparate climate response to regional Arctic sea-ice loss Levine, Xavier Cvijanovic, Ivana Ortega Montilla, Pablo Donat, Markus Tourigny, Etienne Barcelona Supercomputing Center 2021 8 p. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2117/345676 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-021-00183-w eng eng Nature Research https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41612-021-00183-w/MediaObjects/41612_2021_183_MOESM1_ESM.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-021-00183-w info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/754433/EU/SupercompuTing And Related applicationS Fellows Program/STARS info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/727862/EU/Advanced Prediction in Polar regions and beyond: Modelling, observing system design and LInkages associated with ArctiC ClimATE change/APPLICATE info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/748750/EU/Seasonal Prediction of Fire danger using Statistical and Dynamical models/SPFireSD Levine, X. [et al.]. Atmospheric feedback explains disparate climate response to regional Arctic sea-ice loss. "npj Climate and Atmospheric Science", 2021, vol. 4, 28. 2397-3722 http://hdl.handle.net/2117/345676 doi:10.1038/s41612-021-00183-w Attribution 3.0 Spain Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access CC-BY Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria agroalimentària::Ciències de la terra i de la vida Climatic changes Sea ice--Arctic regions Global warming Arctic sea-ice loss Climate change Canvis climàtics Article 2021 ftupcatalunyair https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-021-00183-w 2021-07-13T23:10:13Z Arctic sea-ice loss is a consequence of anthropogenic global warming and can itself be a driver of climate change in the Arctic and at lower latitudes, with sea-ice minima likely favoring extreme events over Europe and North America. Yet the role that the sea-ice plays in ongoing climate change remains uncertain, partly due to a limited understanding of whether and how the exact geographical distribution of sea-ice loss impacts climate. Here we demonstrate that the climate response to sea-ice loss can vary widely depending on the pattern of sea-ice change, and show that this is due to the presence of an atmospheric feedback mechanism that amplifies the local and remote signals when broader scale sea-ice loss occurs. Our study thus highlights the need to better constrain the spatial pattern of future sea-ice when assessing its impacts on the climate in the Arctic and beyond. X.J.L. has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2016-754433 and from the H2020 project APPLICATE (Grant 727862). I.C. was supported by Generalitat de Catalunya (Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca del Departament d’Empresa i Coneixement) through Beatriu de Pinós 2017 programme. M.G.D. and P.O. are grateful for funding by the Spanish Ministry for the Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, respectively, for the Grant references RYC-2017-22964 and RYC-2017-22772. E.T. has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 748750 (SPFireSD project). Experiments were completed on the Marenostrum IV supercomputer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), and support was provided by BSC’s Computational Earth Sciences (CES) department. Peer Reviewed Postprint (published version) Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Climate change Global warming Sea ice Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech: UPCommons - Global access to UPC knowledge Arctic npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 4 1 |
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Arctic sea-ice loss is a consequence of anthropogenic global warming and can itself be a driver of climate change in the Arctic and at lower latitudes, with sea-ice minima likely favoring extreme events over Europe and North America. Yet the role that the sea-ice plays in ongoing climate change remains uncertain, partly due to a limited understanding of whether and how the exact geographical distribution of sea-ice loss impacts climate. Here we demonstrate that the climate response to sea-ice loss can vary widely depending on the pattern of sea-ice change, and show that this is due to the presence of an atmospheric feedback mechanism that amplifies the local and remote signals when broader scale sea-ice loss occurs. Our study thus highlights the need to better constrain the spatial pattern of future sea-ice when assessing its impacts on the climate in the Arctic and beyond. X.J.L. has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2016-754433 and from the H2020 project APPLICATE (Grant 727862). I.C. was supported by Generalitat de Catalunya (Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca del Departament d’Empresa i Coneixement) through Beatriu de Pinós 2017 programme. M.G.D. and P.O. are grateful for funding by the Spanish Ministry for the Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, respectively, for the Grant references RYC-2017-22964 and RYC-2017-22772. E.T. has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 748750 (SPFireSD project). Experiments were completed on the Marenostrum IV supercomputer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), and support was provided by BSC’s Computational Earth Sciences (CES) department. Peer Reviewed Postprint (published version) |
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Atmospheric feedback explains disparate climate response to regional Arctic sea-ice loss |
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Atmospheric feedback explains disparate climate response to regional Arctic sea-ice loss |
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