Arctic sea ice reduction and European cold winters in CMIP5 climate change experiments

Shuting Yang; Jens H. Christensen

doi:10.1029/2012gl053338

Arctic sea ice reduction and European cold winters in CMIP5 climate change experiments

Shuting Yang^*, Jens H. Christensen

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

European winter climate and its possible relationship with the Arctic sea ice reduction in the recent past and future as simulated by the models of the Climate Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) is investigated, with focus on the cold winters. While Europe will warm overall in the future, we find that episodes of cold months will continue to occur and there remains substantial probability for the occurrence of cold winters in Europe linked with sea ice reduction in the Barents and Kara Sea sector. A pattern of cold-European warm-Arctic anomaly is typical for the cold events in the future, which is associated with the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation. These patterns, however, differ from the corresponding patterns in the historical period, and underline the connection between European cold winter events and Arctic sea ice reduction.

Original language	English
Article number	L20707
Journal	Geophysical Research Letters
Volume	39
Issue number	20
ISSN	0094-8276
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/2012gl053338
Publication status	Published - 28 Oct 2012
Externally published	Yes

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