Acceleration of western Arctic sea ice loss linked to the Pacific North American pattern

Zhongfang Liu; Camille Risi; Francis Codron; Xiaogang He; Christopher J. Poulsen; Zhongwang Wei; Dong Chen; Sha Li; Gabriel J. Bowen

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21830-z

Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Acceleration of western Arctic sea ice loss linked to the Pacific North American pattern

Zhongfang Liu,
Camille Risi,
Francis Codron,
Xiaogang He,
Christopher J. Poulsen,
Zhongwang Wei,
Dong Chen,
Sha Li,
Gabriel J. Bowen

Affiliations

Zhongfang Liu: State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University
Camille Risi: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, IPSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université
Francis Codron: Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat (LOCEAN), IPSL, CNRS, IRD, Sorbonne Université
Xiaogang He: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore
Christopher J. Poulsen: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan
Zhongwang Wei: Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University
Dong Chen: Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sha Li: Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University
Gabriel J. Bowen: Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21830-z
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The fastest sea-ice decline has been observed in the western Arctic, but the underlying mechanisms are still unclear. Here, the authors show that the Pacific North American pattern plays an important role in western Arctic sea-ice variability.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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