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Arctic Warming and Eurasian Cooling: Weakening and Reemergence

Authors :
Xinping Xu
Shengping He
Botao Zhou
Huijun Wang
Bo Sun
Source :
Geophysical Research Letters, Vol 50, Iss 22, Pp n/a-n/a (2023)
Publication Year :
2023
Publisher :
Wiley, 2023.

Abstract

Abstract The observed Eurasian winter surface cooling from the 1990s to the early 2010s, which is contrary to global warming, has been extensively studied. Previous studies revealed that the surface cooling trend has significantly weakened in the past decade. Based on large‐ensemble simulations, this study reveals that the weakening of Eurasian surface cooling is primarily driven by the atmospheric internal variability, which coincides with the weakening of Arctic mid‐tropospheric warming and Eurasian mid‐tropospheric cooling. Negative Arctic Oscillation (−AO) and Ural blocking (UB) in combination dominate the intensity of Arctic mid‐tropospheric warming and Eurasian mid‐tropospheric cooling. In the future, there is a possibility that the severe Eurasian cooling trend with comparable magnitude to that during 1990–2013 may reemerge accompanied with Arctic mid‐tropospheric warming, in response to the decadal strengthening of −AO and UB. This may occur before the 2050s, when the atmospheric internal variability is able to overwhelm the effects of greenhouse gases.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
19448007 and 00948276
Volume :
50
Issue :
22
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Geophysical Research Letters
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.40a5868c2c234bddba43dfd372a2e66f
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105180