Our study suggests that record-breaking low precipitation over parts of western Europe during December 2016 may have been favored by an unprecedented reduction of Arctic sea ice, likely driven by anthropogenic climate change.
Acosta Navarro, Juan ; Ortega, Pablo ; García-Serrano, Javier ; Guemas, Virginie ; Tourigny, Etienne ; et. al. December 2016: Linking the lowest Arctic sea-ice extent on record with the lowest European predipcitation event on record. In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective, Vol. 1, no.1, p. 1 (2018)
