A possible linkage of Eurasian heat wave and East Asian heavy rainfall in Relation to the Rapid Arctic warming

• Published in: Environmental Research
• Main Authors: Nakamura, Tetsu, Sato, Tomonori
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: Arctic warming; Heat wave; Heavy rainfall; Meiyu-Baiu front; Blocking high; Weather hazards; Ensemble forecast; Climate modelling; 451; Arctic; Verkhoyansk; Global warming; Siberia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/86712; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.112881

In June-July 2020 two remarkable weather events occurred in northern Eurasia. One is a severe heat wave that produced a record-breaking temperature of 38 degrees C at Verkhoyansk, eastern Siberia on 20 June. The other one is heavy rainfall events observed in East Asia (southern China and southwester...