Prolonged Siberian heat of 2020 almost impossible without human influence

• Published in: Climatic Change
• Main Authors: Ciavarella, Andrew, Cotterill, Daniel, Stott, Peter, Kew, Sarah, Philip, Sjoukje, van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan, Skålevåg, Amalie, Lorenz, Philip, Robin, Yoann, Otto, Friederike, Hauser, Mathias, Seneviratne, Sonia I., Lehner, Flavio, Zolina, Olga
• Other Authors: Swiss National Science Foundation, Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme, Helmholtz-RSF
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
• Subjects: Atmospheric Science; Global and Planetary Change; Arctic; Verkhoyansk; Climate change; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03052-w; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10584-021-03052-w.pdf; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-021-03052-w/fulltext.html

Abstract Over the first half of 2020, Siberia experienced the warmest period from January to June since records began and on the 20th of June the weather station at Verkhoyansk reported 38 °C, the highest daily maximum temperature recorded north of the Arctic Circle. We present a multi-model, multi-...