Future of Arctic Climate and Global Impacts

Selected Review Papers:

Overland, J.E. (2016): Is the melting Arctic changing mid-latitude weather? Phys. Today, 69(3), 38–43, doi: 10.1063/PT.3.3107.
National Research Council. Linkages Between Arctic Warming and Mid-Latitude Weather Patterns: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2014
Overland, J. E., M. Wang, J. E. Walsh, and J. C. Stroeve (2013), Future Arctic climate changes: Adaptation and mitigation time scales, Earth’s Future, 2, doi:10.1002/2013EF000162.
Vihma, Timo. Effects of Arctic Sea Ice Decline on Weather and Climate: A Review. Surveys in Geophysics (2014): 1-40.
Walsh, John E., Intensiﬁed warming of the Arctic: Causes and impacts on middle latitudes, Global and Planetary Change (2014), doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.03.003

Arctic sea ice and instrumentation captured by the
North Pole Web Cam by NOAA PMEL

Review Papers

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Overland, J.E., and M. Wang (2015): Increased variability in early winter subarctic North American atmospheric circulation. J. Climate, 28(18), 7297–7305, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0395.1. [PDF Version]
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