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Polar vortex chills tied to shrinking Barents Kara sea ice
A study in Nature Communications links warmer global temperatures to more frequent polar vortex intrusions into Europe Asia and North America. Researchers say shrinking Barents and Kara sea ice allows more heat into the ocean atmosphere weakening the jet stream and enabling Arctic air to plunge south.
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Washington, D.C
North America
Europe
Asia
Russia
Arctic
Jin-Ho Yoon
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland
Washington
Nature Communications
South Korea
United States
Barents and
Kara Seas