Persistent anticyclonic conditions and climate change exacerbated the exceptional 2022 European-Mediterranean drought

D Faranda, S Pascale, B Bulut - Environmental Research Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A prolonged drought affected Western Europe and the Mediterranean region in 2022
producing large socio-ecological impacts. The role of anthropogenic climate change (ACC) …

Helicity dynamics, inverse, and bidirectional cascades in fluid and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence: a brief review

A Pouquet, D Rosenberg, JE Stawarz… - Earth and Space …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We briefly review helicity dynamics, inverse and bidirectional cascades in fluid and
magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, with an emphasis on the latter. The energy of a …

Statistical performance of local attractor dimension estimators in non-Axiom A dynamical systems

F Pons, G Messori, D Faranda - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate various estimators based on extreme value theory (EVT) for determining the
local fractal dimension of chaotic dynamical systems. In the limit of an infinitely long time …

A climate-change attribution retrospective of some impactful weather extremes of 2021

D Faranda, S Bourdin, M Ginesta… - Weather and Climate …, 2022 - wcd.copernicus.org
The IPCC AR6 report outlines a general consensus that anthropogenic climate change is
modifying the frequency and intensity of extreme events such as cold spells, heat waves …

Do Atlantic‐European weather regimes physically exist?

A Hochman, G Messori, JF Quinting… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The subseasonal variability of the extratropical large‐scale atmospheric flow is
characterized by recurrent or quasi‐stationary circulation anomalies, termed weather …

Dynamical systems theory sheds new light on compound climate extremes in Europe and Eastern North America

P De Luca, G Messori, FME Pons… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a novel approach to the study of compound extremes, grounded in dynamical
systems theory. Specifically, we present the co‐recurrence ratio (α), which elucidates the …

[HTML][HTML] Compound warm–dry and cold–wet events over the Mediterranean

P De Luca, G Messori, D Faranda, PJ Ward… - Earth System …, 2020 - esd.copernicus.org
Abstract The Mediterranean (MED) Basin is a climate change hotspot that has seen drying
and a pronounced increase in heatwaves over the last century. At the same time, it is …

The hammam effect or how a warm ocean enhances large scale atmospheric predictability

D Faranda, MC Alvarez-Castro, G Messori… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The atmosphere's chaotic nature limits its short-term predictability. Furthermore, there is little
knowledge on how the difficulty of forecasting weather may be affected by anthropogenic …

A new dynamical systems perspective on atmospheric predictability: Eastern Mediterranean weather regimes as a case study

A Hochman, P Alpert, T Harpaz, H Saaroni… - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
The atmosphere is a chaotic system displaying recurrent large-scale configurations. Recent
developments in dynamical systems theory allow us to describe these configurations in …

The 2018 summer heatwaves over northwestern Europe and its extended-range prediction

MT Kueh, CY Lin - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
This study investigated the drivers and extended-range prediction of the mid-July to early
August 2018 heatwaves over northwestern Europe, focusing on regional heatwave events …