The climate of the Arctic is characterized by long, cold winters and short, cool summers. There is a large amount of variability in climate across the Arctic, but all regions experience extremes of solar radiation in both summer and winter.

The interior regions of the Arctic lands have a continental climate. The weather is drier, with less snow in the winter and sunny summer days that can be very warm. Some areas get scant precipitation and are classified as polar deserts.

2025年1月22日 · Arctic - Polar, Tundra, Climate: The climates of polar lands vary greatly depending on their latitude, proximity of the sea, elevation, and topography, but, even so, they all share certain “polar” characteristics. Owing to the high latitudes, solar energy is limited to the summer months.

2025年1月30日 · Arctic, northernmost region of Earth, centred on the North Pole and characterized by distinctively polar conditions of climate, plant and animal life, and other physical features. The term is derived from the Greek arktos (“bear”), referring to …

In the Arctic, the usual meteorological conditions factor into the region’s weather: wind, humidity, temperature, cloud cover, precipitation, air pressure, and more. But the Arctic’s unique geography and high latitude also foster longer-term weather patterns, which recur regularly, even yearly. A Dolgans reindeer herder tends to his herd.

Today, scientists study the Arctic to learn more about how climate and weather are changing. They investigate how Arctic climate and weather interact with weather and climate in the middle latitudes, and are working to understand how climate change will affect the Arctic.

2024年11月2日 · Polar climates are experiencing amplified climate change, warming faster than any area on Earth. Arctic areas encompass the Arctic Ocean, Canada, Alaska, Russia, Greenland, and Scandinavia. Antarctica, a continent at the South Pole, is Earth’s coldest, driest, and windiest region.

This book is a new and revised second edition of the book ‘The Climate of the Arctic’, published in 2003. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the current state of knowledge related to the climate of the Arctic, using the latest meteorological data.

2025年1月2日 · The Arctic climate is strongly regional, such as differences between coastal and interior climates. Besides climate, geological influences on vegetation add to the regional differences which, in turn, complicate predicting how cold-adapted caribou (and their Eurasian counterpart, wild reindeer) can balance beneficial and adverse impacts of a ...

The main features of the climate in the Polar region are permanent continental ice and also sea ice. In both summer and winter, a mass of very dense cold air hovers over the Arctic. The main cause of this is the low angle of the Sun’s rays.