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Title
Supplementary data, code, and information for ‘Influence of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Planetary Wave Resonance and Extreme Weather Events’ (Nature Scientific Reports, Mann et al. 2017)
Date
2017
Abstract
Persistent episodes of extreme weather in the Northern Hemisphere summer have been shown to be associated with the presence of high-amplitude quasi-stationary atmospheric Rossby waves within a particular wavelength range (zonal wavenumber 6–8). The underlying mechanistic relationship involves the phenomenon of quasi-resonant amplification (QRA) of synoptic-scale waves with that wavenumber range becoming trapped within an effective mid-latitude atmospheric waveguide. Recent work suggests an increase in recent decades in the occurrence of QRA-favorable conditions and associated extreme weather, possibly linked to amplified Arctic warming and thus a climate change influence. Here, we isolate a specific fingerprint in the zonal mean surface temperature profile that is associated with QRA-favorable conditions. State-of-the-art (“CMIP5”) historical climate model simulations subject to anthropogenic forcing display an increase in the projection of this fingerprint that is mirrored in multiple observational surface temperature datasets. Both the models and observations suggest this signal has only recently emerged from the background noise of natural variability.
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Data DOI
doi:10.26208/w6e2-qp62
Researchers
Mann, M. E.
Penn State Department of Meteorology
Rahmstorf , S.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Kornhuber, K.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Steinman, B. A.
Penn State Department of Meteorology
Miller, S. K.
Penn State Department of Meteorology
Coumou, D.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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References
Mann, M.E., Rahmstorf, S., Kornhuber, K., Steinman, B.A., Miller, S.K., Coumou, D., Influence of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Planetary Wave Resonance and Extreme Weather Events, Scientific Reports, 7, 19831, 2017. doi: 10.1038/srep4524.