Friday, October 12, 2012

Researchers find links between Arctic melting and summer floods and fires

ClimateWire: A new weather pattern that sends blasts of warm southern air into the Arctic each June has fueled the recent, dramatic decline of the region's sea ice, according to a new government-funded study. But that is not all it has done, the analysis suggests, linking the shifting summer winds to record thaws of the Greenland ice sheet, unusually wet European summers and Rocky Mountain wildfires. Researchers say the switch from light, variable east-west winds to stronger, warmer blasts of southern air...

URL: http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2012/10/11/1

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