Collaborative impact of the NAO and atmospheric blocking on European heatwaves, with a focus on the hot summer of 2018

Muyuan Li; Yao Yao; Ian Simmonds; Dehai Luo; Linhao Zhong; Xiaodan Chen

Journal article

Collaborative impact of the NAO and atmospheric blocking on European heatwaves, with a focus on the hot summer of 2018

Muyuan Li, Yao Yao, Ian Simmonds, Dehai Luo, Linhao Zhong, Xiaodan Chen

Environmental Research Letters | IOP PUBLISHING LTD | Published : 2020

DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aba6ad

University of Melbourne Researchers

Ian Simmonds Author Earth Sciences

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Funding Acknowledgements

We sincerely thank two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript. The first two authors acknowledge support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 41975068 and 41790473) and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFA0601802). Simmonds was supported by the Australian Research Council (Grant No. DP 160101997). Luo, Zhong and Chen were supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Strategic Priority Research Program (Grant No. XDA19070403). The authors also acknowledge the E-OBS dataset from the EU-FP6 project ENSEMBLES (http://ensembleseu.metoffice.com) and the data providers in the ECA&D project (www.ecad.eu).