The Arctic warming and the decline of the polar sea ice, do these phenomena have a connection to the cooling trends of winter in the Eurasia?
The Arctic warming and the decline of the polar sea ice, do these phenomena have a connection to the cooling trends of winter in the Eurasia?
In a new publication, a group of researchers at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research have studied this connection together with collagues in Sweden, Denmark, China, France, Japan and Russia.
In the scientific community it has been a debate on the connection between the role of the Arctic sea-ice loss and climate changes in the Northern Hemisphere. Previous modeling studies have suggested widely different findings.
Observations show a clear warming in the Arctic waters together with loss of sea ice, also in wintertime. But in Siberia in winter, the trend is the opposite. Over a decade the trend is cooling temperatures in the northern parts of Eurasia.
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