Amundsen–Bellingshausen sea ice loss drives surface cooling over Southern Africa (opens in new tab)

The Amundsen–Bellingshausen seas (ABS) exhibit the strongest interannual variability of Antarctic sea ice and are the only sector showing a sustained decline during the satellite era. However, whether such regional sea ice variability can generate robust atmospheric teleconnections remains unclear. Here we identify an extratropical teleconnection linking ABS sea ice loss to surface cooling over southern Africa during austral spring that operates largely independent of tropical Indo-Pacific fo...