Extreme weather events in early summer 2018 connected by a recurrent hemispheric wave-7 pattern

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2019, Pages

  Kornhuber, Kai ^a,b   Osprey, Scott ^a,b   Coumou, Dim ^c,d   Petri, Stefan ^c   Petoukhov, Vladimir ^c   Rahmstorf, Stefan ^c   Gray, Lesley ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b National Centre for Atmospheric Science ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH PIK   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

atmosphere dynamics; extreme weather; heat waves; Rossby waves; teleconnections

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL WAVES;

ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICS; EXTREME WEATHER; HEAT WAVES; ROSSBY WAVE; TELECONNECTIONS;

WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; EXTREME EVENT; HEAT WAVE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RAINFALL; ROSSBY WAVE; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; WEATHER;

CASPIAN SEA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 85067815259     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab13bf     Document Type: Article

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