Publication Date:
2012-07-11
Description:
We respond here to three comments by Li and Wu (1) that we find to be either incorrect or lacking in relevance.As stated in Liu et al. (2), “extended from previous studies,” we demonstrated that autumn Arctic sea-ice anomalies, instead of winter North Atlantic Oscillation/Arctic Oscillation (NAO/AO) and El Niño, show a consistent relationship with winter snow anomalies for recent winters. We then demonstrated that reduction of sea ice is linked to winter atmospheric circulation change that is different from the classic winter AO and increased local moisture sources to Europe and the United States, which contributed to recent snowy...
Keywords:
Letters
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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