The Arctic
<p>Journal article: Arctic observations in 2023 provided clear evidence of rapid and pronounced climate and <br>environmental change, shaped by past and ongoing human activities that release greenhouse <br>gases into the atmosphere and push the broader Earth system into uncharted territory. This <br>chapter provides a snapshot of 2023 and summarizes decades-long trends observed across the <br>Arctic, including warming surface air and sea-surface temperatures, decreasing snow cover, <br>diminishing sea ice, thawing permafrost, and continued mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet <br>and Arctic glaciers. These changes are driving a transition to a wetter, greener, and less frozen <br>Arctic, with serious implications for Arctic peoples and ecosystems, as well as for low- and <br>midlatitudes</p>
Authors
- Jelmer Jeuring (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7530-7160)
- Christopher S.R. Neigh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5322-6340)
- Bartłomiej Luks (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2287-385X)
- Paul Montesano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1695-2439)
- Howard E. Epstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2817-4486)
- Logan T. Berner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8947-0479)
- S. L. Farrell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3222-2751)
- Johan H. Scheller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1903-7201)
- Kenneth D. Mankoff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5453-2019)
- Hanne H. Christiansen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6218-3493)
- Robert S. Fausto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1317-8185)
- Donald K. Perovich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0576-0864)
- Xiangshan Tian‐Kunze (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8270-1924)
- B. E. Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1118-7865)
- Walter N. Meier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2857-0550)
- Jack Kohler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1963-054X)
- Gensuo Jia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5950-9555)
- Sharon L. Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0059-094X)
- G. J. Wolken (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6101-1749)
- Vitali Fioletov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2731-5956)
- Uma S. Bhatt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1056-3686)
- Amy Hawes Butler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3632-0925)
- Twila Moon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0968-7008)
- Donald A. Walker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9581-7811)
- Seong-Joong Kim
- Rolf Müller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5024-9977)
- John E. Walsh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9541-5927)
- Gerald V. Frost (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5134-0334)
- Liss M. Andreassen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6494-4252)
- Bert Wouters (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1086-2435)
- Dedi Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1705-7823)
- Mark J. Lara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4670-7031)
- Finnur Pálsson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0874-6443)
- Caroline Drost Jensen
- G. Bernhard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1264-0756)
- Bruce C. Forbes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4593-5083)
- Xavier Fettweis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4140-3813)
- Inger Hanssen‐Bauer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5122-0607)
- Gareth K. Phoenix (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0911-8107)
- Thomas J. Ballinger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8722-1927)
- Edward Hanna (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8683-182X)
- Kelsey E. Nyland (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9292-4504)
- Sebastian Gerland (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2295-9867)
- Simon H. Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0986-0093)
- Lars Kaleschke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7086-3299)
- Brooke Medley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9838-3665)
- D. A. Streletskiy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2563-2664)
- Jason E. Box (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0052-8705)
- David Burgess (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4430-5351)
- Jens‐Uwe Grooß (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9485-866X)
- Bertrand Decharme (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8661-1464)
- James E. Overland (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2012-8832)
- Richard Thoman
- Bjørn Johnsen
- Caitlyn Florentine (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7028-0963)
- Brian Brettschneider (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5649-2647)
- Rick Lader (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6365-6507)
- Kari Luojus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4066-6005)
- V. E. Romanovsky (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9515-2087)
- Louis Sass (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4677-029X)
- Rúna Í. Magnússon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2254-2612)
- Ketil Isaksen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2356-5330)
- G. L. Manney (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4489-4811)
- Kristin Poinar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1386-9659)
- Matthew J. Macander (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2808-208X)
- Dmitry Divine (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0548-6698)
- Siiri Bigalke
- Christine F. Waigl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0783-7324)
- Jarle W. Bjerke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2721-1492)
- N. I. Shiklomanov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-0240)
- Alek Petty (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0307-3216)
- Chris Derksen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6821-5479)
- Thomas L. Mote (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0134)
- Stefan Hendricks
- Kaisa Lakkala
- Marco Tedesco
- Melinda Webster
- Mark C. Serreze (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3699-302X)
- Lawrence Mudryk
- Robert Ricker
- Tove Svendby
- Mary-Louise Timmermans
- Hans Tømmervik
- Muyin Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5233-4588)
- Máret J. Heatta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2023-6144)
- Bryant D. Loomis
- Laura Thomson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4753-7924)
- Adrian Wehrlé
- Alesksandra Elias Chereque
- Matthew L. Druckenmiller
- Iolanda Ialongo
- Þorsteinn Thorsteinsson
- Mike Brubaker
- Zachary Michael Labe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6394-7651)
Institutions
- Goddard Institute for Space Studies (US)
- Utah State University (US)
- Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (DE)
- Natural Resources Canada (CA)
- Finnish Meteorological Institute (FI)
- United States Geological Survey (US)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US)
- Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (NO)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Goddard Space Flight Center (US)
- Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NO)
- Norwegian Meteorological Institute (NO)
- Geological Survey of Canada (CA)
- Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (US)
- Environment and Climate Change Canada (CA)
- University of Alaska Fairbanks (US)
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (US)
- University of Liège (BE)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (US)
- University of Iceland (IS)
- University of Georgia (US)
- Forschungszentrum Jülich (DE)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- George Washington University (US)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Princeton University (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- University of Zurich (CH)
- Northern Arizona University (US)
- Aarhus University (DK)
- Queen's University (CA)
- New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (US)
- NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (US)
- Icelandic Meteorological Office (IS)
- Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (DK)
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (US)
- Saami Council (NO)
- Danish Meteorological Institute (DK)
- Yale University (US)
- Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques (FR)
- Korea Polar Research Institute (KR)
- Earth Cryosphere Institute (RU)
- NORCE Research AS (NO)
- Météo-France (FR)
- NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (US)
- Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)
- Institute of Atmospheric Physics (CN)
- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NO)
- Alaska Biological Research (United States) (US)
- The FRAM Centre (NO)
- Biospherical Instruments (United States) (US)
- NOAA National Weather Service Alaska Region
- University of Virginia (US)
- University at Buffalo, State University of New York (US)
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- NILU (NO)
- Columbia University (US)
- Norwegian Polar Institute (NO)
- University of Sheffield (GB)
- Wageningen University & Research (NL)
- University of Lapland (FI)
- Delft University of Technology (NL)
- Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- Published
- 2024-08-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-24-0101.1
- Citations
- 18
- Primary Topic
- Geological Studies and Exploration
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 15.03