The seasonal difference of Arctic warming and it’s mechanism under sea ice cover diminishing

Wu Fengmin; He Jinhai; Qi Li; Li Wenkai

doi:10.3969/J.ISSN.0253-4193.2014.03.005

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Wu Fengmin, He Jinhai, Qi Li, Li Wenkai. The seasonal difference of Arctic warming and it’s mechanism under sea ice cover diminishing[J]. Haiyang Xuebao, 2014, 36(3): 39-47. doi: 10.3969/J.ISSN.0253-4193.2014.03.005

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Wu Fengmin, He Jinhai, Qi Li, Li Wenkai. The seasonal difference of Arctic warming and it’s mechanism under sea ice cover diminishing[J]. Haiyang Xuebao, 2014, 36(3): 39-47. doi: 10.3969/J.ISSN.0253-4193.2014.03.005

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The seasonal difference of Arctic warming and it’s mechanism under sea ice cover diminishing

doi: 10.3969/J.ISSN.0253-4193.2014.03.005

Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China

Received Date: 2013-02-05
Rev Recd Date: 2013-08-27

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The sea ice concentration data, atmospheric temperature data and surface sensible and latent heat net flux data from HadISST1, ERA_Interim and NCEP respectively are examined to investigate the seasonal and spatial distribution variation of the diminishing Arctic sea ice from 1979 to 2011. Moreover, the seasonal atmospheric temperature change responding to Arctic sea ice loss are discussed by analyzing surface albedo feedback, surface sensible and latent heat net flux.Results show that the strongest surface warming occurs in winter and fall and the largest sea ice reduction takes place in summer and fall. Note that the weakest surface warming occurs in summer. This is principally due to the sea ice melt in summer which absorbs latent heat and the warmer lower atmosphere than ocean surface. With the decreasing sea ice, more heat is transferred from the atmosphere to ocean leading to the ice-melt and upper level sea temperature warming. As a result, the near-surface warming is modest in summer. By contrast, sea ice refreezes in winter and fall and releases latent heat. Meanwhile, less ice cover causes more heat transferred from ocean to atmosphere which warms the low level air. This delayed warming effect plays an important role in the different seasonal air temperature change in Arctic. Besides, the regions of largest warming are co-located with those of greatest sea ice reductions. The southeast Arctic and northern Barents Sea are the key areas of the air-sea interaction in fall and winter, respectively.
- Arctic’s rapidly shrinking sea ice,
- Arctic warming,
- seasonal difference,
- delayed warming effect

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