Amplified summer warming in Europe–West Asia and Northeast Asia after the mid-1990s
Regional temperature changes are a crucial factor in affecting agriculture, ecosystems and societies, which depend greatly on local temperatures. We identify a nonuniform warming pattern in summer around the mid-1990s over the Eurasian continent, with a predominant amplified warming over Europe–West...
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| description | Regional temperature changes are a crucial factor in affecting agriculture, ecosystems and societies, which depend greatly on local temperatures. We identify a nonuniform warming pattern in summer around the mid-1990s over the Eurasian continent, with a predominant amplified warming over Europe–West Asia and Northeast Asia but much weaker warming over Central Asia. It is found that the nonuniform warming concurs with both the phase shift of the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO) and the decadal change in the Silk Road Pattern (SRP), which is an upper-tropospheric teleconnection pattern over the Eurasian continent during summer. We suggest that the AMO may modulate the decadal change in SRP and then induce the zonal asymmetry in temperature changes. Our results have important implications for decadal prediction of regional warming pattern in Eurasia based on the predictable AMO. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9263a1aa9be740a6b229372cbc40d19d2023-08-09T14:34:55ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262017-01-0112909400710.1088/1748-9326/aa7909Amplified summer warming in Europe–West Asia and Northeast Asia after the mid-1990sXiaowei Hong0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7548-8141Riyu Lu1Shuanglin Li2Climate Change Research Center and Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre , Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed.State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics , Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing, People’s Republic of ChinaClimate Change Research Center and Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre , Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; Department of Atmospheric Science, School of Environmental Studies , China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, People’s Republic of ChinaRegional temperature changes are a crucial factor in affecting agriculture, ecosystems and societies, which depend greatly on local temperatures. We identify a nonuniform warming pattern in summer around the mid-1990s over the Eurasian continent, with a predominant amplified warming over Europe–West Asia and Northeast Asia but much weaker warming over Central Asia. It is found that the nonuniform warming concurs with both the phase shift of the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO) and the decadal change in the Silk Road Pattern (SRP), which is an upper-tropospheric teleconnection pattern over the Eurasian continent during summer. We suggest that the AMO may modulate the decadal change in SRP and then induce the zonal asymmetry in temperature changes. Our results have important implications for decadal prediction of regional warming pattern in Eurasia based on the predictable AMO.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7909regional warmingSilk Road PatternAtlantic Multi-decadal Oscillationdecadal change |
| spellingShingle | Xiaowei Hong Riyu Lu Shuanglin Li Amplified summer warming in Europe–West Asia and Northeast Asia after the mid-1990s Environmental Research Letters regional warming Silk Road Pattern Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation decadal change |
| title | Amplified summer warming in Europe–West Asia and Northeast Asia after the mid-1990s |
| title_full | Amplified summer warming in Europe–West Asia and Northeast Asia after the mid-1990s |
| title_fullStr | Amplified summer warming in Europe–West Asia and Northeast Asia after the mid-1990s |
| title_full_unstemmed | Amplified summer warming in Europe–West Asia and Northeast Asia after the mid-1990s |
| title_short | Amplified summer warming in Europe–West Asia and Northeast Asia after the mid-1990s |
| title_sort | amplified summer warming in europe west asia and northeast asia after the mid 1990s |
| topic | regional warming Silk Road Pattern Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation decadal change |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7909 |
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