North American extreme temperature events and related large scale meteorological patterns: a review of statistical methods, dynamics, modeling, and trends

R Grotjahn, R Black, R Leung, MF Wehner, M Barlow… - Climate Dynamics, 2016 - Springer
The objective of this paper is to review statistical methods, dynamics, modeling efforts, and
trends related to temperature extremes, with a focus upon extreme events of short duration …

Persistent extratropical regimes and climate extremes

B Hoskins, T Woollings - Current Climate Change Reports, 2015 - Springer
Some studies have suggested a recent increase in high-impact persistent circulation
regimes in the extratropics. In this brief review paper, we discuss some aspects of this work …

[图书][B] Attribution of extreme weather events in the context of climate change

National Academies of Sciences, Division on Earth… - 2016 - books.google.com
As climate has warmed over recent years, a new pattern of more frequent and more intense
weather events has unfolded across the globe. Climate models simulate such changes in …

Changes in Northern Hemisphere temperature variability shaped by regional warming patterns

T Tamarin-Brodsky, K Hodges, BJ Hoskins… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Global warming involves changes not only in the mean atmospheric temperature, but also in
its variability and extremes. Here, we use a feature-tracking technique to investigate the …

Role of air-mass transformations in exchange between the Arctic and mid-latitudes

F Pithan, G Svensson, R Caballero, D Chechin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Pulses of warm and moist air from lower latitudes provide energy to the Arctic and form its
main energy source outside of the summer months. These pulses can cause substantial …

Recent progress and emerging topics on weather and climate extremes since the fifth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change

Y Chen, W Moufouma-Okia… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Weather and climate extremes impose serious impacts on natural and human systems. In its
fifth assessment report (AR5) and a special report [Managing the Risks of Extreme Events …

Stratospheric downward wave reflection events modulate North American weather regimes and cold spells

G Messori, M Kretschmer, SH Lee… - Weather and Climate …, 2022 - wcd.copernicus.org
The Arctic stratospheric polar vortex is an important driver of mid-latitude winter cold spells.
One proposed coupling mechanism between the stratospheric polar vortex and the …

Dynamics and predictability of cold spells over the Eastern Mediterranean

A Hochman, S Scher, J Quinting, JG Pinto, G Messori - Climate Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
The accurate prediction of extreme weather events is an important and challenging task, and
has typically relied on numerical simulations of the atmosphere. Here, we combine insights …

A dynamical perspective on atmospheric temperature variability and its response to climate change

T Tamarin-Brodsky, K Hodges, BJ Hoskins… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
The atmospheric temperature distribution is typically described by its mean and variance,
while higher-order moments, such as skewness, have received less attention. Skewness is a …

Future risk of record-breaking summer temperatures and its mitigation

F Lehner, C Deser, BM Sanderson - Climatic change, 2018 - Springer
The probability that summer temperatures in the future will exceed the hottest on record
during 1920–2014 is projected to increase at all land locations with global warming. Within …