期刊
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
卷 29, 期 2, 页码 889-902出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0315.1
关键词
Geographic location; entity; Arctic; Sea ice; Circulation; Dynamics; Atmospheric circulation; Atm; Ocean Structure; Phenomena; North Atlantic Oscillation; Models and modeling; General circulation models
资金
- European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)/ERC, ice2ice project [610055]
- Danish National Research Foundation through the Centre for Ice and Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute
Reduction of the Arctic sea ice cover can affect the atmospheric circulation and thus impact the climate beyond the Arctic. The atmospheric response may, however, vary with the geographical location of sea ice loss. The atmospheric sensitivity to the location of sea ice loss is studied using a general circulation model in a configuration that allows combination of a prescribed sea ice cover and an active mixed layer ocean. This hybrid setup makes it possible to simulate the isolated impact of sea ice loss and provides a more complete response compared to experiments with fixed sea surface temperatures. Three investigated sea ice scenarios with ice loss in different regions all exhibit substantial near-surface warming, which peaks over the area of ice loss. The maximum warming is found during winter, delayed compared to the maximum sea ice reduction. The wintertime response of the midlatitude atmospheric circulation shows a nonuniform sensitivity to the location of sea ice reduction. While all three scenarios exhibit decreased zonal winds related to high-latitude geopotential height increases, the magnitudes and locations of the anomalies vary between the simulations. Investigation of the North Atlantic Oscillation reveals a high sensitivity to the location of the ice loss. The northern center of action exhibits clear shifts in response to the different sea ice reductions. Sea ice loss in the Atlantic and Pacific sectors of the Arctic cause westward and eastward shifts, respectively.
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