The thermal state of the North Atlantic and macro‐circulation conditions in the Atlantic‐European sector, and changes in sunshine duration in Central Europe
Abstract This article explains the reasons for the long‐term variability in sunshine duration (SD) in Central Europe. It presents a recently discovered mechanism regulating changes in sunshine duration, not described so far in the literature. The periods of global dimming and global brightening were...
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crwiley:10.1002/joc.7270 2024-09-30T14:39:21+00:00 The thermal state of the North Atlantic and macro‐circulation conditions in the Atlantic‐European sector, and changes in sunshine duration in Central Europe Marsz, Andrzej A. Matuszko, Dorota Styszyńska, Anna 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.7270 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/joc.7270 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/joc.7270 https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/joc.7270 en eng Wiley http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ International Journal of Climatology volume 42, issue 2, page 748-761 ISSN 0899-8418 1097-0088 journal-article 2021 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7270 2024-09-05T05:07:51Z Abstract This article explains the reasons for the long‐term variability in sunshine duration (SD) in Central Europe. It presents a recently discovered mechanism regulating changes in sunshine duration, not described so far in the literature. The periods of global dimming and global brightening were linked with changes in the annual frequency of the macrotypes of the middle‐tropospheric circulation and the variability in the surface component of the thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic (NA THC). On the basis of the totals of annual sunshine duration from the years 1951–2015 from 21 stations located in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, it was shown that changes in NA THC account for onethird of the variability in sunshine duration, while changes in the frequency of macrotypes W and E, forced by the changes in NA THC, each separately account for about 26 and 22% of the variability in the totals of annual sunshine duration in Central Europe. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Wiley Online Library International Journal of Climatology |
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Abstract This article explains the reasons for the long‐term variability in sunshine duration (SD) in Central Europe. It presents a recently discovered mechanism regulating changes in sunshine duration, not described so far in the literature. The periods of global dimming and global brightening were linked with changes in the annual frequency of the macrotypes of the middle‐tropospheric circulation and the variability in the surface component of the thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic (NA THC). On the basis of the totals of annual sunshine duration from the years 1951–2015 from 21 stations located in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, it was shown that changes in NA THC account for onethird of the variability in sunshine duration, while changes in the frequency of macrotypes W and E, forced by the changes in NA THC, each separately account for about 26 and 22% of the variability in the totals of annual sunshine duration in Central Europe. |
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Marsz, Andrzej A. Matuszko, Dorota Styszyńska, Anna The thermal state of the North Atlantic and macro‐circulation conditions in the Atlantic‐European sector, and changes in sunshine duration in Central Europe |
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Marsz, Andrzej A. Matuszko, Dorota Styszyńska, Anna |
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Marsz, Andrzej A. |
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The thermal state of the North Atlantic and macro‐circulation conditions in the Atlantic‐European sector, and changes in sunshine duration in Central Europe |
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The thermal state of the North Atlantic and macro‐circulation conditions in the Atlantic‐European sector, and changes in sunshine duration in Central Europe |
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The thermal state of the North Atlantic and macro‐circulation conditions in the Atlantic‐European sector, and changes in sunshine duration in Central Europe |
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The thermal state of the North Atlantic and macro‐circulation conditions in the Atlantic‐European sector, and changes in sunshine duration in Central Europe |
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The thermal state of the North Atlantic and macro‐circulation conditions in the Atlantic‐European sector, and changes in sunshine duration in Central Europe |
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thermal state of the north atlantic and macro‐circulation conditions in the atlantic‐european sector, and changes in sunshine duration in central europe |
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International Journal of Climatology volume 42, issue 2, page 748-761 ISSN 0899-8418 1097-0088 |
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