The Arctic is experiencing more rare extreme events—including atmospheric and marine heat waves and loss of sea ice—across all components of the climate system. A new paper led by NCICS’s Xiangdong Zhang examines the reasons why—and warns that as Earth continues to warm, such events "will become the new norm."
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Increasing Heat is Super-Charging Arctic Climate and Weather Extremes
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A “pushing and triggering” mechanism has has driven the Arctic climate system to a new state, which will likely see consistently increased frequency and intensity of extreme events across the atmo...0 CommentsComment on Facebook
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