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18 May 2017
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The polar amplification asymmetry: role of Antarctic surface height
Marc Salzmann
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute for Meteorology, Universität Leipzig, Vor dem
Hospitaltore 1, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Spatiotemporal patterns and propagation of polar amplification among Earth's three poles based on climate network T. Ma et al. 10.1016/j.atmosres.2025.108254
- Low Antarctic continental climate sensitivity due to high ice sheet orography H. Singh & L. Polvani 10.1038/s41612-020-00143-w
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- Some new evidence using fractional integration about trends, breaks and persistence in polar amplification G. Caporale et al. 10.1038/s41598-025-92990-x
- Hemispheric Asymmetry of Tropical Expansion Under CO2 Forcing O. Watt‐Meyer et al. 10.1029/2019GL083695
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- Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity Estimated by Equilibrating Climate Models M. Rugenstein et al. 10.1029/2019GL083898
- Polar Amplification in the Earth’s Three Poles Based on MODIS Land Surface Temperatures A. Xie et al. 10.3390/rs15235566
- 21st Century Global and Regional Surface Temperature Projections N. Ma et al. 10.1029/2022EA002662
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- Connecting Hemispheric Asymmetries of Planetary Albedo and Surface Temperature M. Rugenstein & M. Hakuba 10.1029/2022GL101802
- The greater role of Southern Ocean warming compared to Arctic Ocean warming in shifting future tropical rainfall patterns H. Jeong et al. 10.1038/s41467-025-57654-4
- Polar Amplification: A Fractional Integration Analysis G. Caporale et al. 10.2139/ssrn.4803860
- Prediction of Ice‐Free Conditions for a Perennially Ice‐Covered Antarctic Lake M. Obryk et al. 10.1029/2018JF004756
- Contributions to regional precipitation change and its polar-amplified pattern under warming D. Bonan et al. 10.1088/2752-5295/ace27a
- The power spectrum of climate change A. Sneppen 10.1140/epjp/s13360-022-02773-w
- Hemispherically symmetric strategies for stratospheric aerosol injection Y. Zhang et al. 10.5194/esd-15-191-2024
- Changes in polar amplification in response to increasing warming in CMIP6 S. Cai et al. 10.1016/j.aosl.2021.100043
- Water vapor and lapse rate feedbacks in the climate system R. Colman & B. Soden 10.1103/RevModPhys.93.045002
- The quandary of detecting the signature of climate change in Antarctica M. Casado et al. 10.1038/s41558-023-01791-5
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- Twenty first century changes in Antarctic and Southern Ocean surface climate in CMIP6 T. Bracegirdle et al. 10.1002/asl.984
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- A Laboratory Model for a Meandering Zonal Jet K. Stewart & F. Macleod 10.1029/2021MS002943
- Polar climate change: a multidisciplinary assessment F. Casagrande et al. 10.26848/rbgf.v16.6.p3204-3224
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Short summary
The Arctic has been warming much faster than the rest of the globe, including Antarctica. Here it was shown that one of the important mechanisms that sets Antarctica apart from the Arctic is heat transport from lower latitudes, and it was argued that a decrease in land height due to Antarctic melting would be favorable for increased atmospheric heat transport from midlatitudes. Other factors related to the larger Antarctic land height were also investigated.
The Arctic has been warming much faster than the rest of the globe, including Antarctica. Here...
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