A review of the interaction between the cryosphere and atmosphere

• 作者: YongJian Ding JianPing Yang ShengXia Wang YaPing Chang
• 来源期刊: 寒旱区科学（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（6）
• 所属期刊栏目: Reviews
• 页码范围: 329-342
• 页数: 14页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

The interaction between the cryosphere and atmosphere is an essential and extremely sensitive mutual action process on the earth. Due to global warming and the cryospheric melting, more and more attention has been paid to the interaction process between the cryosphere and atmosphere, especially the feedback of the cryosphere change to the atmosphere. A comprehensive review of the studies on the interaction between the cryosphere and atmosphere is conducted from two as-pects:(1) effects of climate change on the cryosphere or responses of the cryosphere to climate change;and (2) feedback of the cryosphere change to the climate. The response of the cryosphere to climate change is lagging. Such a lagging and cumulative effect of temperature rise within the cryosphere have resulted in a rapid change in the cryosphere in the 21st century, and its impacts have become more significant. The feedback from cryosphere change on the climate are omnifari-ous. Among them, the effects of sea ice loss and snow cover change, especially the Arctic sea ice loss and the Northern Hemisphere snow cover change, are the most prominent. The Arctic amplification (AA) associated with sea ice feedback is disturbing , and the feedback generated by the effect of temperature rise on snow properties in the Northern Hemisphere is also of great concern. There are growing evidence of the impact of the Arctic cryosphere melting on mid-latitude weath-er and climate. Weakened storm troughs, steered jet stream and amplified planetary waves associated with energy propaga-tion become the key to explaining the links between Arctic cryosphere change and atmospheric circulation. There is still a great deal of uncertainty about how cryosphere change affects the weather and climate through different atmospheric circu-lation processes at different spatial and temporal scales due to observation and simulation problems.