Frauke Feser, Burkhardt Rockel, Hans von Storch, Jörg Winterfeldt et al.
An important challenge in current climate modeling is to realistically describe small-scale weather statistics, such as topographic precipitation and coastal wind patterns, or regional phenomena like polar lows. Global climate models simulate atmospheric processes with increasingly higher resolution...
Hester Biemans, Christian Siderius, Arthur Lutz, Santosh Nepal et al.
X. Tian-Kunze, Lars Kaleschke, Nina Maaß, Marko Mäkynen et al.
Abstract. Following the launch of ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, it has been shown that brightness temperatures at a low microwave frequency of 1.4 GHz (L-band) are sensitive to sea ice properties. In the first demonstration study, sea ice thickness up to 50 cm has been deriv...
Kjetil Våge, Robert S. Pickart, Artem Sarafanov, Øyvind Knutsen et al.
Colby Loucks, Shannon M. Barber‐Meyer, Md. Abdullah Abraham Hossain, Adam Barlow et al.
Dingzhu Hu, Zhaoyong Guan, Wenshou Tian, Rongcai Ren
The stratospheric Arctic vortex (SAV) plays a critical role in forecasting cold winters in northern mid-latitudes. Its influence on the tropospheric mid- and high-latitudes has attracted growing attention in recent years. However, the trend in the SAV during the recent two decades is still unknown. ...
Jean‐Claude Gascard, Jean Festy, Hervé le Goff, Matthieu Weber et al.
The Arctic is undergoing significant environmental changes due to climate warming. The most evident signal of this warming is the shrinking and thinning of the ice cover of the Arctic Ocean. If the warming continues, as global climate models predict, the Arctic Ocean will change from a perennially i...
Nina Maaß, Lars Kaleschke, X. Tian-Kunze, Matthias Drusch
Abstract. The microwave interferometric radiometer of the European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission measures at a frequency of 1.4 GHz in the L-band. In contrast to other microwave satellites, low frequency measurements in L-band have a large penetration depth in sea ic...
Donglin Guo, Entao Yu, Huijun Wang
Abstract Elevation‐dependent warming, greater warming at higher elevations, tends to accelerate the ablation of solid water reserves on the Tibetan Plateau and is thus expected to affect the sustainable water supply of the plateau. In the context of a global climate that is predicted to continue to ...
Philip W. Boyd, Carol Robinson, Graham Savidge, P.J.leB. Williams
Victoria Slonosky, Lawrence A. Mysak, Jacques Derome
Abstract The relationship between Arctic sea‐ice concentration anomalies, particularly those associated with the “Great Salinity Anomaly” of 1968–1982, and atmospheric circulation anomalies north of 45°N is investigated. Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analyses are performed on winter Arctic ice...
Susan Kay, John Caesar, Judith Wolf, Lucy Bricheno et al.
Coastal flooding due to storm surge and high tides is a serious risk for inhabitants of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) delta, as much of the land is close to sea level. Climate change could lead to large areas of land being subject to increased flooding, salinization and ultimate abandonment in...
Gunnar Voet, Detlef Quadfasel, Kjell Arne Mork, Henrik Søiland
The trajectories of 61 profiling Argo floats deployed at mid-depth in the Nordic Seas-the Greenland, Lofoten and Norwegian Basins and the Iceland Plateau-between 2001 and 2009 are analysed to determine the pattern, strength and variability of the regional circulation. The mid-depth circulation is st...
Jiechun Deng, Aiguo Dai
Winter surface air temperature (Tas) over the Barents-Kara Seas (BKS) and other Arctic regions has experienced rapid warming since the late 1990s that has been linked to the concurring cooling over Eurasia, and these multidecadal trends are attributed partly to internal variability. However, how suc...
Zhiwei Zhu, Rui Lü, Bin Yu, Tim Li et al.
The Canadian Arctic Archipelago consists of important international trade routes, and local surface air temperatures (SAT) greatly control sea ice melting in situ during boreal summer (June-July-August-September). However, the drivers of the Arctic Archipelago summer SAT variability have not yet bee...