Warm hole in Pacific Arctic sea ice cover forces mid-latitude Northern Hemisphere cooling

Yoshihiro Tachibana1, Kensuke K. Komatsu1, Vladimir A Alexeev2, Lei Cai3 and Yuta Ando1, (1)Mie University, Weather and Climate Dynamics Division, Tsu, Japan, (2)Univ Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)Norse Research, Bergen, Norway