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Revisiting the trend in the occurrences of the “warm Arctic–cold Eurasian continent” temperature pattern
Lejiang Yu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
MNR Key Laboratory for Polar Science, Polar Research Institute of China,
Shanghai, China
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai),
Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
Shiyuan Zhong
Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Cuijuan Sui
National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, Beijing, China
Bo Sun
MNR Key Laboratory for Polar Science, Polar Research Institute of China,
Shanghai, China
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The recent increasing trend of "warm Arctic, cold continents" has attracted much attention, but it remains debatable as to what forces are behind this phenomenon. Sea surface temperature (SST) over the central North Pacific and the North Atlantic oceans influences the trend. On an interdecadal timescale, the recent increase in the occurrences of the warm Arctic–cold Eurasia pattern is a fragment of the interdecadal variability of SST over the Atlantic Ocean and over the central Pacific Ocean.
The recent increasing trend of "warm Arctic, cold continents" has attracted much attention, but...
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