From Romania to Kazakhstan, summer droughts linked to less winter ice in two rapidly warming seas
Researchers found that less winter sea ice in the Barents and Kara seas raised summer drought risk across Eurasia, even after adjusting for rising carbon dioxide.
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Arctic sea ice loss linked to summer drought risk across Eastern Europe and Kazakhstan
Credit: Amber Janssens 2 via PexelsThin winter ice in the Arctic's Barents and Kara Seas is followed by drier summers across a belt from eastern Romania and Ukraine to Kazakhstan, study shows.
From Romania to Kazakhstan, summer droughts linked to less winter ice in two rapidly warming seas
This summer, with its scarce rainfall and repeated heat waves, witnessed one of the most severe droughts in Europe since 1540. The resulting wildfires across western Europe received considerable media attention, but eastern Europe was also heavily hit, worsening the humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. Simulations have shown that such droughts are bound to become more frequent and severe in the future due to man-made global warming.
A new study has discovered that the reduction of the marine winter ice in the Barents and Kara seas could be linked to a more accentuated summer drought in a vast area of Eurasia. Micsoring the marine ice in the Arctic waters, which are heating rapidly, could provide an early warning sign of the summer drought in thousands of [...]
The disappearance of ice in rapidly warming Arctic waters could be an early indicator of summer droughts thousands of kilometers away, including in areas of Eastern Europe.
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