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DOI	10.1007/s00382-018-4573-9
	Euro-Mediterranean climate variability in boreal winter: a potential role of the East Asian trough
	Sen O.L.; Ezber Y.; Bozkurt D.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0930-7575
起始页码	7071
结束页码	7084
卷号	52 期号:11
英文摘要	Euro-Mediterranean climate variability has been associated mostly with the upstream atmospheric circulation and teleconnection patterns, the North Atlantic Oscillation and European blocking being the main ones. This study shows, for the first time, that the East Asian trough (EAT), a prominent circulation feature of the mid-troposphere in the downstream side, might exert a strong and significant role on the interannual variability of the Euro-Mediterranean climate during boreal winters. We performed empirical orthogonal function analysis on the regions of the EAT and Mediterranean trough (MedT), an important system modulating the climate of the region, to obtain the respective dominant modes of variability at 500-hPa geopotential heights. It appears that the leading modes, the intensity in the case of the EAT and the zonal displacement in the case of the MedT, are significantly correlated with each other (r = − 0.64, p < 0.001). Consequently, when the EAT is strong (weak), the MedT is observed in the west (east) of its climatological location resulting in a warmer (cooler) Middle East and northeastern Africa, a cooler (warmer) western Europe and northwestern Africa, and wetter (dryer) Italian, Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas. Given the fact that the EAT is also a key determinant of the East Asian winter climate, the identified mid-tropospheric link between East Asia and Mediterranean could help interpret some temperature and precipitation co-variability on the opposite sides of the Eurasian continent. We suggest that studies involving the Euro-Mediterranean climate should also consider the role of the EAT as it seems to be a potential driver of the year-to-year, perhaps longer-term, climate variability in the region. © 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
英文关键词	Composite analysis; EOF analysis; Interannual variability; Precipitation; Surface air temperature
语种	英语
scopus关键词	air temperature; annual variation; atmospheric circulation; climate variation; precipitation (climatology); troposphere; winter; Africa; Anatolia; Balkans; Italian Peninsula; Mediterranean Region; Turkey
来源期刊	Climate Dynamics
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/146236
作者单位	Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey; Center for Climate and Resilience Research, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sen O.L.,Ezber Y.,Bozkurt D.. Euro-Mediterranean climate variability in boreal winter: a potential role of the East Asian trough[J],2019,52(11).
APA	Sen O.L.,Ezber Y.,&Bozkurt D..(2019).Euro-Mediterranean climate variability in boreal winter: a potential role of the East Asian trough.Climate Dynamics,52(11).
MLA	Sen O.L.,et al."Euro-Mediterranean climate variability in boreal winter: a potential role of the East Asian trough".Climate Dynamics 52.11(2019).