COMBINED: Accelerated Arctic and Tibetan Plateau Warming: Processes and Combined Impact on Eurasian Climate
COMBINED is to enhance understanding of the accelerated Arctic and TP's warming processes at different timescales, explore the two-pole feedback mechanisms addressing
their combined impact, and to advance Eurasian climate prediction.
Objectives
COMBINED is to enhance understanding of the accelerated Arctic and TP's warming processes at different timescales, explore the two-pole feedback mechanisms addressingtheir combined impact, and to advance Eurasian climate prediction.
Project Summary
The Arctic and Tibetan Plateau (TP) have warmed 2–3 times faster than the global warming rate since the late twentieth century. They act as two emerging heat engines,
driving large-scale atmospheric circulation anomalies. COMBINED addresses two key open questions: What are the roles of internal and external climate variability and various
physical processes in driving synchronous and asynchronous climate variations at the two poles, on sub-seasonal and longer timescales? What is the combined and likely
non-linear impact of the warming of these two poles on Eurasian and global climate?
