Responses of polar energy budget to regional sea surface temperature changes in extra-polar regions

Wang, Qingmin; Liu, Yincheng; Zhang, Lujun; Zhou, Chen

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-6741-2025

Articles | Volume 25, issue 13

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-6741-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-6741-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 25, issue 13

Research article

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03 Jul 2025

Research article |

| 03 Jul 2025

Responses of polar energy budget to regional sea surface temperature changes in extra-polar regions

Qingmin Wang, Yincheng Liu, Lujun Zhang, and Chen Zhou

Data sets

Data of SST patch experiments, Part2: cooling patches C. Zhou https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8026626

Data of SST patch experiments, Part1: warming patches C. Zhou https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8025843

Data of SST patch experiments, Part3: control experiment C. Zhou https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8169525

Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature data set (HadISST) Met Office https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadisst/

Short summary

Our research explores how SST (sea surface temperature) changes in non-polar regions impact the polar energy budget. Through idealized SST experiments, we found that warming in tropical and mid-latitude oceans raises polar temperatures through enhanced atmospheric energy transport, leading to surface warming and top-of-atmosphere cooling in polar areas. This study highlights the distinct impacts of tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean SST changes on Arctic and Antarctic climates.