Journal article
Increased quasi stationarity and persistence of winter ural blocking and Eurasian extreme cold events in response to arctic warming. Part I: Insights from observational analyses
Y Yao, D Luo, A Dai, I Simmonds
Journal of Climate | Published : 2017
Abstract
Part I of this study examines the relationship among winter cold anomalies over Eurasia, Ural blocking (UB), and the background conditions associated with Arctic warming over the Barents and Kara Seas (BKS) using reanalysis data. It is found that the intensity, persistence, and occurrence region of UB-related Eurasian cold anomalies depend strongly on the strength and vertical shear (VS) of the mean westerly wind (MWW) over mid-high-latitude Eurasia related to BKS warming. Observational analysis reveals that during 1951-2015 UB days are 64% (54%) more frequent during weak MWW (VS) winters, with 26.9 (28.4) days per winter, than during strong MWW (VS) winters. During weak MWW or VS winters, a..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The first two authors acknowledge the support from the National Key Research And Development Program of China (2016YFA0601802) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 41505075, 41430533, and 41375067). A.Dai is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Grant AGS-1353740), the U.S.Department of Energy's Office of Science (Award DE-SC0012602), and the U.S.National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Award NA15OAR4310086). I.Simmonds was supported by Australian Research Council Grant DP 160101997. The authors thank three anonymous reviewers for their useful suggestions in improving this paper.