Coincidence of increasingly volatile winters in China with Arctic sea-ice loss during 1980–2018
Despite intense discussions on the recent boom of mid-latitude wintertime cold extremes, co-variations of warm and cold extremes, i.e. winter temperature volatility, has garnered substantially less attention. Apart from using temperature extremes’ frequency and intensity, we also define ‘temperature...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:a7d4106f299a4c10b91d44820a6816e0 2023-09-05T13:16:52+02:00 Coincidence of increasingly volatile winters in China with Arctic sea-ice loss during 1980–2018 Yang Chen Zhen Liao Panmao Zhai 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab5c99 https://doaj.org/article/a7d4106f299a4c10b91d44820a6816e0 EN eng IOP Publishing https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab5c99 https://doaj.org/toc/1748-9326 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab5c99 1748-9326 https://doaj.org/article/a7d4106f299a4c10b91d44820a6816e0 Environmental Research Letters, Vol 14, Iss 12, p 124076 (2019) volatility in winter weathers temperature whiplash events forcings from Arctic sea-ice melt observation-based detection Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering TD1-1066 Environmental sciences GE1-350 Science Q Physics QC1-999 article 2019 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab5c99 2023-08-13T00:37:11Z Despite intense discussions on the recent boom of mid-latitude wintertime cold extremes, co-variations of warm and cold extremes, i.e. winter temperature volatility, has garnered substantially less attention. Apart from using temperature extremes’ frequency and intensity, we also define ‘temperature whiplash’, which depicts rapid switches between warm and cold extremes, to measure winter temperature volatility in China. Results show that Northeast-, Northwest-, Southwest-, Southeast-China and the Yangtze River Valley have experienced increasingly volatile winters after 1980, co-occurring with precipitous decline in Arctic sea-ice. This enhanced volatility has a strong expression in significant increases in temperature whiplash events, with some hotspots also seeing both warm and cold extremes become more frequent and/or intense. An observation-based detection analysis highlights the dominance of intrinsic atmospheric variability over both anthropogenic warming and sea-ice decline during 1980–2018 in driving winters in China to be more volatile over this period. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Sea ice Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Environmental Research Letters 14 12 124076 |
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Despite intense discussions on the recent boom of mid-latitude wintertime cold extremes, co-variations of warm and cold extremes, i.e. winter temperature volatility, has garnered substantially less attention. Apart from using temperature extremes’ frequency and intensity, we also define ‘temperature whiplash’, which depicts rapid switches between warm and cold extremes, to measure winter temperature volatility in China. Results show that Northeast-, Northwest-, Southwest-, Southeast-China and the Yangtze River Valley have experienced increasingly volatile winters after 1980, co-occurring with precipitous decline in Arctic sea-ice. This enhanced volatility has a strong expression in significant increases in temperature whiplash events, with some hotspots also seeing both warm and cold extremes become more frequent and/or intense. An observation-based detection analysis highlights the dominance of intrinsic atmospheric variability over both anthropogenic warming and sea-ice decline during 1980–2018 in driving winters in China to be more volatile over this period. |
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Coincidence of increasingly volatile winters in China with Arctic sea-ice loss during 1980–2018 |
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Coincidence of increasingly volatile winters in China with Arctic sea-ice loss during 1980–2018 |
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Coincidence of increasingly volatile winters in China with Arctic sea-ice loss during 1980–2018 |
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