naa a22 4500 510754252 CHVBK 20180411083116.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s13131-013-0360-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s13131-013-0360-y Severe winter weather as a response to the lowest Arctic sea-ice anomalies [Elektronische Daten] [Hongxia Chen, Na Liu, Zhanhai Zhang] Possible impact of reduced Arctic sea-ice on winter severe weather in China is investigated regarding the snowstorm over southern China in January 2008. The sea-ice conditions in the summer (July-September) and fall (September-November) of 2007 show that the sea-ice is the lowest that year. During the summer and fall of 2007, sea ice displayed a significant decrease in the East Siberian, the northern Chukchi Sea, the western Beaufort Sea, the Barents Sea, and the Kara Sea. A ECHAM5.4 atmospheric general circulation model is forced with realistic sea-ice conditions and strong thermal responses with warmer surface air temperature and higher-than-normal heat flux associated with the sea-ice anomalies are found. The model shows remote atmospheric responses over East Asia in January 2008, which result in severe snow storm over southern China. Strong water-vapor transported from the Bay of Bengal and from the Pacific Ocean related to Arctic sea-ice anomalies in the fall (instead of summer) of 2007 is considered as one of the main causes of the snowstorm formation. The Chinese Society of Oceanography and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013 Arctic sea ice nationallicence severe winter weather nationallicence ECHAM5.4 atmospheric general circulationmodel nationallicence Chen Hongxia Key Laboratory of Marine Science and Numerical Modeling, First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, 266061, Qingdao, China aut Liu Na Key Laboratory of Marine Science and Numerical Modeling, First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, 266061, Qingdao, China aut Zhang Zhanhai Key Laboratory for Polar Science, Polar Research Institute of China, State Oceanic Administration, 200136, Shanghai, China aut Acta Oceanologica Sinica Springer Berlin Heidelberg 32/10(2013-10-01), 11-15 0253-505X 32:10<11 2013 32 13131 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-013-0360-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-013-0360-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chen Hongxia Key Laboratory of Marine Science and Numerical Modeling, First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, 266061, Qingdao, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Liu Na Key Laboratory of Marine Science and Numerical Modeling, First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, 266061, Qingdao, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zhang Zhanhai Key Laboratory for Polar Science, Polar Research Institute of China, State Oceanic Administration, 200136, Shanghai, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Acta Oceanologica Sinica Springer Berlin Heidelberg 32/10(2013-10-01), 11-15 0253-505X 32:10<11 2013 32 13131 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer