{"id":2921,"date":"2014-09-02T12:57:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T17:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2014-09-02T12:57:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T17:57:15","slug":"polar-vortex-linked-to-arctic-sea-ice-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/polar-vortex-linked-to-arctic-sea-ice-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar vortex linked to Arctic sea-ice loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The loss of Arctic sea-ice may be responsible for the weakened polar vortex and cold Northern Hemisphere winters observed in recent years, a new study shows. The researchers conducted observational analyses and model experiments to reveal a link between Arctic sea-ice loss and polar atmospheric circulation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Researchers\u00a0showed that decreased sea-ice cover during November and December north of Siberia is tied to low temperatures in Canada and the US in January and February.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/2014\/140902\/ncomms5646\/full\/ncomms5646.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em>Nature Communications\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>September 2, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Seong-Joong Kim, Korea Polar Research Institute, Korea<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The loss of Arctic sea-ice may be responsible for the weakened polar vortex and cold Northern Hemisphere winters observed in recent years, a new study shows. The researchers conducted observational analyses and model experiments to reveal a link between Arctic sea-ice loss and polar atmospheric circulation. Researchers\u00a0showed that decreased sea-ice cover during November and December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31,215,176],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-L7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2922,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}