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Jennifer Ann Francis
Senior Scientist, Woodwell Climate Research Center
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Is Rapid Arctic Warming Connected with Severe Winter Weather? A New Hemispheric index Provides Clues
EXTRATROPICAL AND HIGH-LATITUDE STORMS, TELECONNECTIONS, AND EXTREME EVENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF AIR-ICE-SEA INTERACTIONS AND RAPIDLY CHANGING POLAR CLIMATE I ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 15 december 2022
Judah L. Cohen, Jennifer A. Francis, Karl Pfeiffer
A recently developed index of accumulated severe winter weather for stations in the United States has been extended to the entire Northern Hemisphere....
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Measuring “Weather Whiplash” Events in North America: A New Large‐Scale Regime Approach
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
07 september 2022
Jennifer A. Francis, Natasa Skific, Stephen J. Vav...
The term “weather whiplash” was recently coined to describe abrupt swings in weather conditions from one extreme to another, such as fr...
Measuring “weather whiplash” events in North America: An increased frequency linked with rapid Arctic warming?
EXTRATROPICAL LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION VARIABILITY II POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 13 december 2021
Jennifer A. Francis, Natasa Skific, Stephen J. Vav...
The term weather whiplash was recently coined to describe abrupt swings in weather conditions from one extreme to another, such as from a frigid cold ...
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Increasing Persistence of Weather Regimes over Asia Is Associated with a Rapidly Warming Arctic
EXTRATROPICAL AND HIGH-LATITUDE STORMS, TELECONNECTIONS, EXTREME EVENTS, AND THE RAPIDLY CHANGING POLAR CLIMATE I
atmospheric sciences | 12 december 2019
Jennifer A. Francis, Natasa Skific, Stephen J. Vav...
One of the effects of disproportionate warming in high northern latitudes (a.k.a Arctic amplification) is expected to be an increased persistence of w...
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The exceptional 2019 melting season over the Greenland ice sheet: drivers, implications and new records
ADVANCES IN OBSERVING AND MODELING ICE SHEET AND ICE SHELF SURFACE MASS BALANCE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE I
cryosphere | 11 december 2019
Marco Tedesco, Twila A. Moon, Patrick M. Alexander...
The Greenland ice sheet is presently the largest contributorto eustatic sea level rise (SLR), making it imperative to monitor surface melt, and unders...
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Hiatus and Heatwaves: What’s Putting the Brakes on Arctic Sea-Ice Loss During Recent Summers and How Is It Connected to a Sizzling Asia?
CHANGING CLIMATE COMPONENTS IN THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC COUPLED SYSTEMS II
cryosphere | 10 december 2019
Jennifer A. Francis, BingYi Wu
Every summer since the dramatic record low sea-ice extent of 2012, Arctic scientists have watched melt seasons unfold with bated breath: will this yea...
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Contribution of wind to Polar sea ice retreat
COUPLED SURFACE INTERACTIONS IN THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC: FROM PROCESS-LEVEL UNDERSTANDING TO ADVANCED REGIONAL PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES II POSTERS
global environmental change | 09 december 2019
Alessandro Cescatti, Ernest Koffi, Stephen J. Vavr...
The relationship between near-surface wind speed and sea-ice concentration remains unclear for two main reasons: 1) observed wind speeds over polar re...
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An assessment of arctic observing based on the historically low sea ice coverage of the Bering Sea in winter 2017–18
FALL MEETING 2018
14 december 2018
Matthew L. Druckenmiller, Hajo Eicken, Jennifer A....
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