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Cecilia M. Bitz
Professor, University of Washington Seattle
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Investigating Recent Arctic Cyclone Structure and Evolution
EXTRATROPICAL AND HIGH-LATITUDE STORMS, CIRCULATION DYNAMICS, AND EXTREME EVENTS IN THE RAPIDLY CHANGING POLAR CLIMATE POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 12 december 2024
Ariel Jacobs, Cecilia M. Bitz
Arctic cyclones have large impacts on sea-ice redistribution and are hazardous to communities in the region, yet the structure and evolution of Arctic...
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Opportunities and Challenges With Sea ice Model Developments in the CESM
CLIMATE MODELING IN THE POLAR REGIONS: ADVANCES, CHALLENGES, AND OPPORTUNITIES POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 11 december 2024
Alice K. DuVivier, Marika M. Holland, David A. Bai...
Temperatures are warming around the globe, and some of the most dramatic changes are happening in the polar regions. The Arctic and Antarctic are unde...
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Record Low Antarctic Sea Ice in Austral Winter 2023: Mechanisms and Predictability
ANTARCTIC SEA ICE AND THE SOUTHERN OCEAN: COUPLED PROCESSES, VARIABILITY, AND CHANGE II ORAL
ocean sciences | 10 december 2024
Zac Espinosa, Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, Ceci...
Since 2016, Antarctic sea ice area (SIA) has set three record summertime minimums occurring in 2017, 2022, and 2023. These recent extremes culminated ...
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Model Biases in Simulating Extreme Sea Ice Loss Associated With the Record January 2022 Arctic Cyclone
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: OCEANS
24 august 2024
Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, Samuel Brenner, Me...
In January 2022, the strongest Arctic cyclone on record resulted in a record weekly loss in sea ice cover in the Barents‐Kara‐Laptev se...
Forecast Skill of the Arctic Sea Ice Outlook over 2008 - 2022: How Good are Sea Ice Forecasts, and How Can They Get Better?
PREDICTION AND UNDERSTANDING IN THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC COUPLED SEA ICE–OCEAN–CLIMATE SYSTEMS II POSTER
cryosphere | 14 december 2023
Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, Mitchell Bushuk, F...
The Sea Ice Outlook has collected, analyzed, and disseminated seasonal forecasts of September sea ice annually since 2008. As this community forecasti...
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Interseasonal dependence of Arctic warming on radiative heating
POLAR AMPLIFICATION AND ITS CONNECTION TO LOWER-LATITUDE WEATHER AND CLIMATE I ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 14 december 2023
Lily Hahn, Kyle Armour, David S. Battisti, Cecilia...
Arctic near-surface warming under increased CO2 peaks in winter, motivating many studies to focus on the wintertime processes that mediate this warmin...
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Record Arctic Cyclone of January 2022 - how the Strongest Arctic Storm Led to a Record Sea Ice Loss (and a Poor Forecast)
EXTRATROPICAL AND HIGH-LATITUDE STORMS, CIRCULATION DYNAMICS, AND EXTREME EVENTS IN THE RAPIDLY CHANGING POLAR CLIMATE I ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 14 december 2023
Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, Melinda Webster, C...
We investigate the record low sea level pressure (SLP) Arctic cyclone which formed over East Greenland and tracked NE over the Barents and Kara seas b...
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Insights into Arctic Cyclones and Tropopause Polar Vortices from Data Assimilation in Variable-Resolution CESM2
PREDICTION AND UNDERSTANDING IN THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC COUPLED SEA ICE–OCEAN–CLIMATE SYSTEMS II POSTER
cryosphere | 14 december 2023
Robin P. Clancy, Steven M. Cavallo, Cecilia M. Bit...
The evolution of Arctic cyclones is governed by processes from the surface through to the tropopause. At the tropopause, long-lived, sub-synoptic feat...
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