{"id":3345,"date":"2014-10-26T14:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T19:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2014-10-26T10:46:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T15:46:37","slug":"arctic-sea-ice-decline-has-made-severe-eurasian-winters-twice-as-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/arctic-sea-ice-decline-has-made-severe-eurasian-winters-twice-as-likely\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic sea-ice decline has made severe Eurasian winters twice as likely"},"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>The decline in Arctic sea ice over the past few decades has doubled the chance of severe winters in Europe and Asia, a new study shows.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers performed computer simulations to show that sea-ice decline in the Arctic Barents and Kara seas since 2004 is linked to blocking situations of the jetstream which in turn favours the transport of cold air over Europe and Asia. This trend could decrease towards the end of the twenty-first century, because of climate warming.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span>\u00a0published in <em>Nature Geoscience\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>October 26, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ccsr.aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/faculty-e.html\" target=\"_blank\">Masato Mori<\/a><\/span>, University of Tokyo, Japan<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decline in Arctic sea ice over the past few decades has doubled the chance of severe winters in Europe and Asia, a new study shows. Researchers performed computer simulations to show that sea-ice decline in the Arctic Barents and Kara seas since 2004 is linked to blocking situations of the jetstream which in turn [&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":[185,31,1445,215,187],"class_list":["post-3345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-arctic","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-sea-ice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-RX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345","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=3345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3346,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}