2016/09/10 by Tetsu Nakamura, Koji Yamazaki, Meiji Honda +4 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics #Climate variability and models #Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
paper · pdf · doi:10.1002/2016gl070526
openalex publication_date 2016/09/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Abstract We demonstrated atmospheric responses to a reduction in Arctic sea ice via simulations in which Arctic sea ice decreased stepwise from the present‐day range to an ice‐free range. In all cases, the tropospheric response exhibited a negative Arctic Oscillation (AO)‐like pattern. An intensification of the climatological planetary‐scale wave due to the present‐day sea ice reduction on the Atlantic side of the Arctic Ocean induced stratospheric polar vortex weakening and the subsequent negative AO. Conversely, strong Arctic warming due to ice‐free conditions across the entire Arctic Ocean induced a weakening of the tropospheric westerlies corresponding to a negative AO without troposphere‐stratosphere coupling, for which the planetary‐scale wave response to a surface heat source extending to the Pacific side of the Arctic Ocean was responsible. Because the resultant negative AO‐like response was accompanied by secondary circulation in the meridional plane, atmospheric heat transport into the Arctic increased, accelerating the Arctic amplification.