Accelerated western European heatwave trends linked to more-persistent double jets over Eurasia

E Rousi, K Kornhuber, G Beobide-Arsuaga… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Persistent heat extremes can have severe impacts on ecosystems and societies, including
excess mortality, wildfires, and harvest failures. Here we identify Europe as a heatwave …

Precipitation regime changes in High Mountain Asia driven by cleaner air

J Jiang, T Zhou, Y Qian, C Li, F Song, H Li, X Chen… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract High Mountain Asia (HMA) has experienced a spatial imbalance in water resources
in recent decades, partly because of a dipolar pattern of precipitation changes known as …

Atlantic origin of the increasing Asian westerly jet interannual variability

L Lin, C Hu, B Wang, R Wu, Z Wu, S Yang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The summer Eurasian westerly jet is reported to become weaker and wavier, thus promoting
the frequent weather extremes. However, the primary driver of the changing jet stream …

Aerosol forcing regulating recent decadal change of summer water vapor budget over the Tibetan Plateau

Z Wang, Y Lei, H Che, B Wu, X Zhang - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP), known as the Asian water tower, has been getting wetter
since the 1970s. However, the primary drivers behind this phenomenon are still highly …

Increased Asian aerosols drive a slowdown of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

F Liu, X Li, Y Luo, W Cai, J Lu, XT Zheng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Observational evidence and climate model experiments suggest a slowdown of the Atlantic
Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) since the mid-1990s. Increased greenhouse …

[HTML][HTML] Attribution of multi-annual to decadal changes in the climate system: The Large Ensemble Single Forcing Model Intercomparison Project (LESFMIP)

DM Smith, NP Gillett, IR Simpson… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Multi-annual to decadal changes in climate are accompanied by changes in extreme events
that cause major impacts on society and severe challenges for adaptation. Early warnings of …

An emerging Asian aerosol dipole pattern reshapes the Asian summer monsoon and exacerbates northern hemisphere warming

B Xiang, SP Xie, SM Kang, RJ Kramer - npj Climate and Atmospheric …, 2023 - nature.com
Since the early 2010s, anthropogenic aerosols have started decreasing in East Asia (EA)
while have continued to increase in South Asia (SA). Yet the climate impacts of this Asian …

Trends in the tropospheric general circulation from 1979 to 2022

AJ Simmons - Weather and Climate Dynamics, 2022 - wcd.copernicus.org
Atmospheric general circulation changes from March 1979 to February 2022 are examined
using the ERA5 reanalysis. Maps of linear trends and time series for specific areas are …

Arctic sea ice loss weakens Northern Hemisphere summertime storminess but not until the late 21st century

JM Kang, TA Shaw, L Sun - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Observations show Arctic sea ice has declined and midlatitude storminess has weakened
during Northern Hemisphere (NH) summertime. It is currently unclear whether Arctic sea ice …

Spatiotemporal evolution patterns of contiguous extreme precipitation events across China from a 3D perspective

X Wang, M Luo, S Wu, G Ning, Z Liu… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme precipitation events severely affect ecosystems and human society. While most
existing studies investigated either their temporal changes or spatial extent, the joint …