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Multiyear tropical warm pool warming drives slowdown in Antarctic mass loss
Abstract Antarctic mass loss has been a major contributor to global sea-level rise for most of the last few decades, mainly driven by West Antarctica1. During 2021–2023, however, a sharp increase in surface mass balance over Queen Mary Land and Wilkes Land in East Antarctica offset West Antarctic loss and slowed the rate of total ice mass loss2,3.
Water sources and land capacitor effects stimulate observed summer Arctic moistening and warming - Communications Earth & Environment
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Abstract The primary sources of recent summer Arctic moistening trends in reanalysis are uncertain, hindering attribution of observed Arctic warming due to radiative effects from water vapor changes. Here, we use a combined online numerical water tracer and circulation nudging approach in the Community Earth System Model to track the sources of water vapor beyond its initial sources.
By Ian Baxter, Qinghua Ding, Thomas Ballinger, Hailong Wang, Marika M. Holland, Hailan Wang, Zhe Li, Nicole Feldl, Jennifer Kay Verified
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The Impact of Snowoff Timing and Associated Atmospheric Drivers on the Alaska Wildfire Season
Keywords: Arctic; Snowmelt/icemelt; Wildfires; Climate prediction 1. Introduction Area burned due to wildfire has increased in recent decades in Alaska (Kasischke et al. 2010) with notable extreme seasons in 2004 and 2015 in the Interior and 2019 in Southcentral (International Arctic Research Center 2021). Wildfire has occurred in Alaska for millennia and is a natural component of the boreal ecosystem, but the activity has been pronounced over the last century (Hoecker et al. 2020).
Atmospheric Pressure Rivalry Between the Arctic and Northern Pacific: Implications for Alaskan Climate Variability
1 Introduction Arctic sea ice loss and atmospheric warming have increased significantly in recent decades, and both trends have emerged as primary indicators of global warming, suggesting that the Arctic is undergoing notable and possibly irreversible changes (Box et al. 2019).
Role of atmospheric rivers in shaping long term Arctic moisture variability - Nature Communications
Abstract Atmospheric rivers (ARs) reaching high-latitudes in summer contribute to the majority of climatological poleward water vapor transport into the Arctic. This transport has exhibited long term changes over the past decades, which cannot be entirely explained by anthropogenic forcing according to ensemble model responses.
Transformative Ecological and Human Impacts from Diminished Sea Ice in the Northern Bering Sea
(a) Winter (January–March) atmospheric AAF time series, 1948–2022. The AAF is calculated as the sea level pressure difference (hPa) between grid points representing the approximate climatological positions of the Beaufort high (75°N, 170°W) and the Aleutian low (50°N, 170°W) (i.e., Beaufort high winter grid point minus Aleutian low winter grid point). Note that five of the last six years show unprecedented persistence of below-normal winter-strength AAF values.
Loss of age-accumulated crh-1 circRNAs ameliorate amyloid β-induced toxicity in a C. elegans model for Alzheimers disease
Abstract Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are non-coding RNAs mostly derived from exons of protein-coding genes via a back-splicing process. The expression of hundreds of circRNAs accumulates during healthy aging and is associated with Alzheimers disease (AD), characterized by the accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ) proteins. In C. elegans, many circRNAs were previously found to accumulate during aging, with loss of age-accumulated circRNAs derived from the CREB gene (circ-crh-1) to increase mean lifespan.
Evaluating the Alaska Blocking Index as an indicator of wildfire potential in Alaska's central eastern interior
1 INTRODUCTION Surface air temperature warming and an invigorated hydrologic cycle are hallmarks of recent Arctic change (Box et al., 2019). While high-latitude air temperature and moisture patterns and trends are inhomogeneous in space and time, prolonged localized warming, sometimes concurrent with extreme heat events, coupled with drought conditions can create an environment ripe for wildland fire outbreaks.
Modulated trends in Arctic surface air temperature extremes as a fingerprint of climate change
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Transformative ecological and human impacts from climate change and diminished sea ice in the northern Bering Sea
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Arctic cyclones have become more intense and longer-lived over the past seven decades - Communications Earth & Environment
Abstract Intense cyclones driving extreme Arctic weather and climate events have been more frequently observed during recent years, causing dramatic environmental and socioeconomic impacts. However, inconsistencies have emerged about long-term changes in Arctic cyclone activity. Here we analyze multiple reanalysis datasets covering a multidecadal period with improvements to the cyclone tracking algorithm and the integrated cyclone activity metric.
Alaska Terrestrial and Marine Climate Trends, 1957-2021
Keywords: Arctic; Sea ice; Climate; Precipitation; Snowfall; Temperature 1. Introduction The rapid rate of recent environmental changes in Alaska warrants revisiting climate trends while assessing the current state of Alaska’s physical system in the process (Thoman and Walsh 2019).
Discrepancies between observations and climate models of large-scale wind-driven Greenland melt influence sea-level rise projections - Nature Communications
IMBIE 2019 Greenland ice sheet mass balance data We use the rate of annual Greenland ice sheet mass balance data from the IMBIE 2019 Greenland Dataset as the satellite-based observational estimate of ice mass changes in the GrIS over 1980–2018. The dataset represents reconciled mass balance estimates from three independent satellite-based techniques (gravimetry, altimetry and input-output method) that are part of the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE6).
2021 Arctic Report Card: Arctic had seventh-warmest year on record
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2020 Arctic air temperatures continue a long-term warming streak
From sea ice and glacier loss to tundra greening and wildfires, rising surface temperatures are at the heart of the ongoing transformation of the Arctic. According to NOAA’s 15th annual Arctic Report Card, the 12-month period of October 2019–September 2020 was the second-warmest year on record for-surface air temperatures over land in the Arctic. (To avoid splitting the winter season, the Arctic meteorological year doesn’t match the calendar year).
The role of blocking circulation and emerging open water feedbacks on Greenland cold‐season air temperature variability over the last century
RESEARCH ARTICLE Thomas J. Ballinger, Corresponding Author tjballinger@alaska.edu orcid.org/0000-0002-8722-1927 International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA Correspondence Thomas J. Ballinger, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK.
The Arctic
J. K. Andersen 3 , Liss M. Andreassen 4 , Emily H. Baker 5 , Thomas J. Ballinger 6 , Logan T. Berner 7 , Germar H. Bernhard 8 , Uma S. Bhatt 9 , Jarle W. Bjerke 10 , Jason E. Box 11 , L. Britt 12 , R. Brown 13 , David Burgess 14 , John Cappelen 15 , Hanne H. Christiansen 16 , B. Decharme 17 , C. Derksen 18 , D. S. Drozdov 19 , Howard E. Epstein 20 , L. M. Farquharson 21 , Sinead L. Farrell 22 , Robert S. Fausto 23 , Xavier Fettweis 24 , Vitali E. Fioletov 25 , Bruce C. Forbes 26 , Gerald V.
United States Heat Wave Frequency and Arctic Ocean Marginal Sea Ice Variability
Research Article United States Heat Wave Frequency and Arctic Ocean Marginal Sea Ice Variability Dagmar Budikova Corresponding Author E-mail address: dbudiko@ilstu.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6661-7685 Department of Geography, Geology, and the Environment, Illinois State University, Normal, IL Search for more papers by this author This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading...
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Every Joey Votto story that comes out anymore is weird. Thank god this year is over. Hope he can come back even 90% of what he used to be. He is having an unreal season and historic 2nd half. It's too bad the are too pathetic for any of it to matter He is so odd it's hard to be a fan of him. How do you shut down your foundation with 10 more years on your deal? It ANNOYS THE HELL out of me that Bryan Price can't just say "he is done for the year." They'd be CRAZY to play him.
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