Abstract: The Arctic sea ice cover is reducing rapidly, which has strong local climate impacts but also remote effects over the Eurasian continent. Results will be presented from model experiments with the ECHAM6 atmospheric general circulation model forced with simple sea surface temperature and sea ice concentration configurations representing the Arctic warming from the present day to the end of the century. The effects on surface air temperature, atmospheric circulation, atmospheric temperature balance and surface energy fluxes are investigated in Europe and Asia and compared to the effects of global warming.
