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Articles | Volume 5, issue 3
Articles | Volume 5, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-985-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-985-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 5, issue 3
Research article
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31 Jul 2024
Research article |  | 31 Jul 2024

Circulation responses to surface heating and implications for polar amplification

Peter Yu Feng Siew, Camille Li, Stefan Pieter Sobolowski, Etienne Dunn-Sigouin, and Mingfang Ting

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The atmospheric circulation response to surface heating at various latitudes was investigated within an idealized framework. We confirm previous results on the importance of temperature advection for balancing heating at lower latitudes. Further poleward, transient eddies become increasingly important, and eventually radiative cooling also contributes. This promotes amplified surface warming for high-latitude heating and has implications for links between sea ice loss and polar amplification.
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