Contribution of warm and moist atmospheric flow to a record minimum July sea ice extent of the Arctic in 2020
Abstract The satellite observations unveiled that the July sea ice extent of the Arctic shrank to the lowest value, since 1979, in 2020 with a major ice retreat in the Eurasian shelf seas including Kara, Laptev, and East Siberian seas. Based on the ERA-5 reanalysis products, we explored the impacts of warm and moist air-mass transport on this extreme event. The results revealed that anomalously high energy and moisture converged into these regions in the spring months (April to June) of 2020, leading to a burst of high moisture content and warming within the atmospheric column. The convergence is accompanied by local enhanced downward longwave surface radiation and turbulent fluxes, which is favorable for initiating an early melt onset in the region with severe ice loss. Once the melt begins, solar radiation plays a decisive role in leading to further sea ice depletion due to ice–albedo positive feedback. The typical trajectories of the synoptic cyclones that occurred on the Eurasian side in spring 2020 agree well with the path of atmospheric flow. Assessments suggest that variations in characteristics of the spring cyclones are conducive to the severe melt of sea ice. We argue that large-scale atmospheric circulation and synoptic cyclones acted in concert to trigger the exceptional poleward transport of total energy and moisture from April to June to cause this record minimum of sea ice extent in the following July.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Contribution of warm and moist atmospheric flow to a record minimum July sea ice extent of the Arctic in 2020 ; volume:16 ; number:3 ; year:2022 ; pages:1107-1123 ; extent:17
The Cryosphere ; 16, Heft 3 (2022), 1107-1123 (gesamt 17)
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Liang, Yu
Bi, Haibo
Huang, Haijun
Lei, Ruibo
Liang, Xi
Cheng, Bin
Wang, Yunhe
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10.5194/tc-16-1107-2022
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022041210340050534459
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- Liang, Yu
- Bi, Haibo
- Huang, Haijun
- Lei, Ruibo
- Liang, Xi
- Cheng, Bin
- Wang, Yunhe
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