Intensified Arctic warming under greenhouse warming by vegetation–atmosphere–sea ice interaction
(2014) In Environmental Research Letters 9.- Abstract
- Observations and modeling studies indicate that enhanced vegetation activities over highlatitudes under an elevated CO2 concentration accelerate surface warming by reducing thesurface albedo. In this study, we suggest that vegetation-atmosphere-sea ice interactions overhigh latitudes can induce an additional amplification of Arctic warming. Our hypothesis is testedby a series of coupled vegetation-climate model simulations under 2xCO2 environments. Theincreased vegetation activities over high latitudes under a 2xCO2 condition induce additionalsurface warming and turbulent heat fluxes to the atmosphere, which are transported to the Arcticthrough the atmosphere. This causes additional sea-ice melting and upper-ocean warming duringthe warm... (More)
- Observations and modeling studies indicate that enhanced vegetation activities over highlatitudes under an elevated CO2 concentration accelerate surface warming by reducing thesurface albedo. In this study, we suggest that vegetation-atmosphere-sea ice interactions overhigh latitudes can induce an additional amplification of Arctic warming. Our hypothesis is testedby a series of coupled vegetation-climate model simulations under 2xCO2 environments. Theincreased vegetation activities over high latitudes under a 2xCO2 condition induce additionalsurface warming and turbulent heat fluxes to the atmosphere, which are transported to the Arcticthrough the atmosphere. This causes additional sea-ice melting and upper-ocean warming duringthe warm season. As a consequence, the Arctic and high-latitude warming is greatly amplified inthe 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 positivefeedback of the Arctic amplification. (Less)
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- Jeong, Jee-Hoon ; Kug, Jong-Seong ; Linderholm, Hans ; Chen, Deliang ; Kim, Baek-Min and Jun, Sang-Yoon
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- 2014
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- climate fee, sea ice, global climate model, vegetation feedback, Arctic warming
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- Environmental Research Letters
- volume
- 9
- article number
- 94007
- publisher
- IOP Publishing
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- scopus:84907700239
- ISSN
- 1748-9326
- DOI
- 10.1088/1748-9326/9/9/094007
- language
- English
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