Intensified Arctic Warming under Greenhouse Warming by Vegetation-Atmosphere-Sea Ice Interaction. Jeong, J., Kug, J., Linderholm, H. W., Chen, D., Kim, B., & Jun, S. 9(9):094007+.
Intensified Arctic Warming under Greenhouse Warming by Vegetation-Atmosphere-Sea Ice Interaction [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
Observations and modeling studies indicate that enhanced vegetation activities over high latitudes under an elevated CO 2 concentration accelerate surface warming by reducing the surface albedo. In this study, we suggest that vegetation-atmosphere-sea ice interactions over high latitudes can induce an additional amplification of Arctic warming. Our hypothesis is tested by a series of coupled vegetation-climate model simulations under 2xCO 2 environments. The increased vegetation activities over high latitudes under a 2xCO 2 condition induce additional surface warming and turbulent heat fluxes to the atmosphere, which are transported to the Arctic through the atmosphere. This causes additional sea-ice melting and upper-ocean warming during the warm season. As a consequence, the Arctic and high-latitude warming is greatly amplified in the following winter and spring, which further promotes vegetation activities the following year. We conclude that the vegetation-atmosphere-sea ice interaction gives rise to additional positive feedback of the Arctic amplification.
@article{jeongIntensifiedArcticWarming2014,
  title = {Intensified {{Arctic}} Warming under Greenhouse Warming by Vegetation-Atmosphere-Sea Ice Interaction},
  author = {Jeong, Jee-Hoon and Kug, Jong-Seong and Linderholm, Hans W. and Chen, Deliang and Kim, Baek-Min and Jun, Sang-Yoon},
  date = {2014-09},
  journaltitle = {Environmental Research Letters},
  volume = {9},
  pages = {094007+},
  issn = {1748-9326},
  doi = {10.1088/1748-9326/9/9/094007},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/9/094007},
  abstract = {Observations and modeling studies indicate that enhanced vegetation activities over high latitudes under an elevated CO 2 concentration accelerate surface warming by reducing the surface albedo. In this study, we suggest that vegetation-atmosphere-sea ice interactions over high latitudes can induce an additional amplification of Arctic warming. Our hypothesis is tested by a series of coupled vegetation-climate model simulations under 2xCO 2 environments. The increased vegetation activities over high latitudes under a 2xCO 2 condition induce additional surface warming and turbulent heat fluxes to the atmosphere, which are transported to the Arctic through the atmosphere. This causes additional sea-ice melting and upper-ocean warming during the warm season. As a consequence, the Arctic and high-latitude warming is greatly amplified in the following winter and spring, which further promotes vegetation activities the following year. We conclude that the vegetation-atmosphere-sea ice interaction gives rise to additional positive feedback of the Arctic amplification.},
  keywords = {*imported-from-citeulike-INRMM,~INRMM-MiD:c-13371755,arctic-region,climate-change,feedback,global-warming,non-linearity,transdisciplinary-research,vegetation},
  number = {9}
}

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