RT Journal Article
T1 Atmospheric Dynamics Leading to West European Summer Hot Temperatures since 1851
A1 Álvarez Castro, María del Carmen
A1 Faranda, Davide
A1 Yiou, Pascañ
K1 Heatwaves
K1 Atmospheric circulation
K1 Weather regimes
AB Summer hot temperatures have many impacts on health, economy (agriculture, energy, and transports), and ecosystems. In Western Europe, the recent summers of 2003 and 2015 were exceptionally warm. Many studies have shown that the genesis of the major heat events of the last decades was linked to anticyclonic atmospheric circulation and to spring precipitation deficit in Southern Europe. Such results were obtained for the second part of the 20th century and projections into the 21st century. In this paper, we challenge this vision by investigating the earlier part of the 20th century from an ensemble of 20CR reanalyses. We propose an innovative description of Western-European heat events applying the dynamical system theory. We argue that the atmospheric circulation patterns leading to the most intense heat events have changed during the last century. We also show that the increasing temperature trend during major heatwaves is encountered during episodes of Scandinavian Blocking, while other circulation patterns do not yield temperature trends during extremes.
PB Wiley
YR 2018
FD 2018-01-16
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22860
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22860
LA en
NO Alvarez-Castro, M. C., Yiou, P., Faranda, D., Giesl, P., & Peter Giesl. (2018). Atmospheric Dynamics Leading to West European Summer Hot Temperatures Since 1851. Complexity (New York, N.Y.), 2018(2018), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/2494509
NO Departamento Sistemas Físicos, Químicos y Naturales
DS RIO
RD Apr 23, 2026