Arctic Oscillation: possible trigger of COVID-19 outbreak
The current COVID-19 pandemic is having detrimental consequences worldwide. The pandemic started to develop strongly by the end of January and beginning of February 2020, first in China with subsequent rapid spread to other countries with new epicenters of the outbreaks concentrated mainly within th...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.2005.03171 2023-05-15T14:55:15+02:00 Arctic Oscillation: possible trigger of COVID-19 outbreak Sanchez-Lorenzo, Arturo Vaquero-Martinez, Javier Lopez-Bustins, Joan-A. Calbo, Josep Wild, Martin Santurtun, Ana Folini, Doris Vaquero, Jose-M. Anton, Manuel 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2005.03171 https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03171 unknown arXiv arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Populations and Evolution q-bio.PE Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics physics.ao-ph FOS Biological sciences FOS Physical sciences Article CreativeWork article Preprint 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2005.03171 2022-03-10T15:37:24Z The current COVID-19 pandemic is having detrimental consequences worldwide. The pandemic started to develop strongly by the end of January and beginning of February 2020, first in China with subsequent rapid spread to other countries with new epicenters of the outbreaks concentrated mainly within the 30-50 degrees North latitudinal band (e.g., South Korea, Japan, Iran, Italy, Spain). Simultaneously, an unusual persistent anticyclonic situation prevailing at latitudes around 40 degrees North was observed on global scale, in line with an anomalously strong positive phase of the Arctic Oscillation. This atypical situation could have resulted in favorable meteorological conditions for a quicker spread of the virus over the latitude band detailed above. This possible connection needs further attention in order to understand the meteorological and climatological factors related to the COVID-19 outbreak, and for anticipating the spatio-temporal distribution of possible future pandemics. : 11 pages, 2 figures Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic |
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The current COVID-19 pandemic is having detrimental consequences worldwide. The pandemic started to develop strongly by the end of January and beginning of February 2020, first in China with subsequent rapid spread to other countries with new epicenters of the outbreaks concentrated mainly within the 30-50 degrees North latitudinal band (e.g., South Korea, Japan, Iran, Italy, Spain). Simultaneously, an unusual persistent anticyclonic situation prevailing at latitudes around 40 degrees North was observed on global scale, in line with an anomalously strong positive phase of the Arctic Oscillation. This atypical situation could have resulted in favorable meteorological conditions for a quicker spread of the virus over the latitude band detailed above. This possible connection needs further attention in order to understand the meteorological and climatological factors related to the COVID-19 outbreak, and for anticipating the spatio-temporal distribution of possible future pandemics. : 11 pages, 2 figures |
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Sanchez-Lorenzo, Arturo Vaquero-Martinez, Javier Lopez-Bustins, Joan-A. Calbo, Josep Wild, Martin Santurtun, Ana Folini, Doris Vaquero, Jose-M. Anton, Manuel |
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Sanchez-Lorenzo, Arturo Vaquero-Martinez, Javier Lopez-Bustins, Joan-A. Calbo, Josep Wild, Martin Santurtun, Ana Folini, Doris Vaquero, Jose-M. Anton, Manuel |
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Arctic Oscillation: possible trigger of COVID-19 outbreak |
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Arctic Oscillation: possible trigger of COVID-19 outbreak |
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Arctic Oscillation: possible trigger of COVID-19 outbreak |
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Arctic Oscillation: possible trigger of COVID-19 outbreak |
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Arctic Oscillation: possible trigger of COVID-19 outbreak |
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arctic oscillation: possible trigger of covid-19 outbreak |
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