More frequent summer heat waves in southwestern China linked to the recent declining of Arctic sea ice

Southwestern China (SWC) has suffered from increasing frequency of heat wave (HW) in recent summers. While the local drought-HW connection is one obvious mechanism for this change, remote controls remain to be explored. Based on ERA-5 reanalysis, it is found that the SWC summer HWs are significantly...

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Main Authors: Kaiqiang Deng, Xingwen Jiang, Chundi Hu, Deliang Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2020-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab8335