Local increase of anticyclonic wave activity over northern Eurasia under amplified Arctic warming
Abstract
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 (Ae) 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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- 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)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1356503
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1402148
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-125601
Journal ID: ISSN 0094-8276; KP1703010; KP1703010
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830; SC0016117
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 44; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 0094-8276
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Arctic amplification; local wave activity; sea ice melting; extreme weather
Citation Formats
Xue, Daokai, Lu, Jian, Sun, Lantao, Chen, Gang, and Zhang, Yaocun. Local increase of anticyclonic wave activity over northern Eurasia under amplified Arctic warming. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1002/2017GL072649.
Xue, Daokai, Lu, Jian, Sun, Lantao, Chen, Gang, & Zhang, Yaocun. Local increase of anticyclonic wave activity over northern Eurasia under amplified Arctic warming. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL072649
Xue, Daokai, Lu, Jian, Sun, Lantao, Chen, Gang, and Zhang, Yaocun. Mon .
"Local increase of anticyclonic wave activity over northern Eurasia under amplified Arctic warming". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL072649. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1356503.
@article{osti_1356503,
title = {Local increase of anticyclonic wave activity over northern Eurasia under amplified Arctic warming},
author = {Xue, Daokai and Lu, Jian and Sun, Lantao and Chen, Gang and Zhang, Yaocun},
abstractNote = {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 (Ae) 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.},
doi = {10.1002/2017GL072649},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
number = 7,
volume = 44,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 27 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Mon Mar 27 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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