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Can Arctic warming influence UK extreme weather?
Author(s) -
Hanna Edward,
Hall Richard J.,
Overland James E.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1477-8696
pISSN - 0043-1656
DOI - 10.1002/wea.2981
Subject(s) - jet stream , climatology , arctic , environmental science , global warming , the arctic , atmospheric circulation , climate change , extreme weather , circulation (fluid dynamics) , oceanography , jet (fluid) , geology , physics , thermodynamics
We explore a possible relation between the recent Arctic amplification of global warming and changes in North Atlantic jet stream circulation and UK extreme weather conditions over the last decade. Such a link is supported by some tantalising clues from recent North Atlantic atmospheric circulation changes in summer and winter, but due to multiple factors affecting jet stream variability, we need extended records over at least a further decade to more reliably attribute these changes to global warming.