Local increase of anticyclonic wave activity over northern Eurasia under amplified Arctic warming

Xue, Daokai; Lu, Jian; Sun, Lantao; Chen, Gang; Zhang, Yaocun

doi:10.1002/2017GL072649

Title: Local increase of anticyclonic wave activity over northern Eurasia under amplified Arctic warming

Journal Article · Mon Mar 27 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Geophysical Research Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL072649· OSTI ID:1356503

Xue, Daokai ^[1];

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^[3]; Chen, Gang ^[4];

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Nanjing Univ. (China)
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO (United States)
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)

In an attempt to resolve the controversy as to whether Arctic sea ice loss leads to more mid-latitude extremes, a metric of finite-amplitude wave activity is adopted to quantify the midlatitude wave activity and its change during the observed period of the drastic Arctic sea ice decline in both ERA Interim reanalysis data and a set of AMIP-type of atmospheric model experiments. Here, neither the experiment with the trend in the SST or that with the declining trend of Arctic sea ice can simulate the sizable midlatitude-wide reduction in the total wave activity (A_e) observed in the reanalysis, leaving its explanation to the atmospheric internal variability. On the other hand, both the diagnostics of the flux of the local wave activity and the model experiments lend evidence to a possible linkage between the sea ice loss near the Barents and Kara seas and the increasing trend of anticyclonic local wave activity over the northern part of the central Eurasia and the associated impacts on the frequency of temperature extremes.

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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830; SC0016117

OSTI ID:: 1356503

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1402148

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-125601; KP1703010; KP1703010

Journal Information:: Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 44, Issue 7; ISSN 0094-8276

Publisher:: American Geophysical UnionCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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