Observational evidence of European summer weather patterns predictable from spring
Forecasts of summer weather patterns months in advance would be of great value for a wide range of applications, from tourism to agriculture, water resource management, energy production, construction, and retail. However, dynamical model seasonal forecasts for European summers have very little skil...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:5776804 2023-05-15T17:31:24+02:00 Observational evidence of European summer weather patterns predictable from spring Ossó, Albert Sutton, Rowan Shaffrey, Len Dong, Buwen 2018-01-02 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5776804/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29255052 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713146114 en eng National Academy of Sciences http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5776804/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29255052 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713146114 Copyright © 2017 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) . CC-BY-NC-ND Physical Sciences Text 2018 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713146114 2018-01-28T01:14:01Z Forecasts of summer weather patterns months in advance would be of great value for a wide range of applications, from tourism to agriculture, water resource management, energy production, construction, and retail. However, dynamical model seasonal forecasts for European summers have very little skill. Here, we analyze atmosphere and ocean observations and identify evidence that a specific pattern of summertime atmospheric circulation over Western Europe is predictable from the previous spring North Atlantic sea-surface temperatures, and identify the mechanism involved. The atmospheric pattern has a particularly strong influence on rainfall in the British Isles and in the north coast of France, which we find can also be predicted months ahead with significant skill. Text North Atlantic PubMed Central (PMC) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 1 59 63 |
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Forecasts of summer weather patterns months in advance would be of great value for a wide range of applications, from tourism to agriculture, water resource management, energy production, construction, and retail. However, dynamical model seasonal forecasts for European summers have very little skill. Here, we analyze atmosphere and ocean observations and identify evidence that a specific pattern of summertime atmospheric circulation over Western Europe is predictable from the previous spring North Atlantic sea-surface temperatures, and identify the mechanism involved. The atmospheric pattern has a particularly strong influence on rainfall in the British Isles and in the north coast of France, which we find can also be predicted months ahead with significant skill. |
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