Decadal changes in surface air temperature variability and cold surge characteristics over northeast Asia and their relation with the Arctic Oscillation for the past three decades (1979–2011)

Woo, Sung-Ho; Kim, Baek-Min; Jeong, Jee‐Hoon; Kim, Seong‐Joong; Lim, Gyu-Ho

doi:10.1029/2011jd016929

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“…The enhanced ridging initiated episodic eastwardpropagating wave trains that caused cold-air outbreaks over eastern Asia (Woo et al 2012;Kim et al 2014;Mori et al 2014). Table 2 presents significant correlations between BK sea ice and December 2-m air temperatures (T2m) for central Eurasia (458-608N, 608-1208E), supporting the notion that sea ice decline in the BK is associated with anomalous winter cooling.…”

Section: Recent East Asia Cold Surges Associated With Regional Sea Icsupporting

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The Melting Arctic and Midlatitude Weather Patterns: Are They Connected?*

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The potential of recent Arctic changes to influence hemispheric weather is a complex and controversial topic with considerable uncertainty, as time series of potential linkages are short (,10 yr) and understanding involves the relative contribution of direct forcing by Arctic changes on a chaotic climatic system. A way forward is through further investigation of atmospheric dynamic mechanisms. During several exceptionally warm Arctic winters since 2007, sea ice loss in the Barents and Kara Seas initiated eastward-propagating wave trains of high and low pressure. Anomalous high pressure east of the Ural Mountains advected Arctic air over central and eastern Asia, resulting in persistent cold spells. Blocking near Greenland related to low-level temperature anomalies led to northerly flow into eastern North America, inducing persistent cold periods. Potential Arctic connections in Europe are less clear. Variability in the North Pacific can reinforce downstream Arctic changes, and Arctic amplification can accentuate the impact of Pacific variability. The authors emphasize multiple linkage mechanisms that are regional, episodic, and based on amplification of existing jet stream wave patterns, which are the result of a combination of internal variability, lower-tropospheric temperature anomalies, and midlatitude teleconnections. The quantitative impact of Arctic change on midlatitude weather may not be resolved within the foreseeable future, yet new studies of the changing Arctic and subarctic low-frequency dynamics, together with additional Arctic observations, can contribute to improved skill in extended-range forecasts, as planned by the WMO Polar Prediction Project (PPP).

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Section: Recent East Asia Cold Surges Associated With Regional Sea Icsupporting

confidence: 57%

The Melting Arctic and Midlatitude Weather Patterns: Are They Connected?*

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“…In fact, SEACSs have obvious interannual and interdecadal variation characteristics [16,22,39,40]. For example, a weakening of the East Asian winter monsoon related to the global warming may have reduced the intensity and frequency of cold waves over East Asia in recent years [41,42].…”

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Effects of Strong East Asian Cold Surges on Improving the Air Quality over Mainland China

2016

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Abstract:A strong East Asian cold surge (SEACS) is one of the most distinct extreme weather events that can promote an improvement in local air quality. Combining East Asian atmospheric circulation with the air pollution index (API) datasets of 47 major cities throughout mainland China in 11 winter half-years (November-March) during 2001/2002-2011/2012, we investigated the influence of 39 SEACSs in conjunction with air pollution episodes on air quality over mainland China. The results showed that SEACS can cause considerable improvement in air quality and a remarkable decrease in the API over mainland China in up to 4 days after the SEACS outbreak day. The removal efficiency of air pollutants by SEACSs was greater than 30% in north central China, eastern southwest China, and southeast China. The occurrence date of the lowest value of the local API (indicating the best local air quality) can be observed as late day by day from northwest to southeast over mainland China after the SEACS outbreak, indicating a process of gradual improvement in Chinese air quality after the SEACS outbreak. When clean cold air originating from Siberia moves southward into coastal areas of southeastern China, the increase in sea level pressure, the drop in temperature and the enhancement in the northerly wind also tend to progress gradually from north to south over SEACS-affected East Asia. Thus, the "early in the north and late in the south" feature of air quality improvement by SEACSs over mainland China results from the southward movement of cold air masses from high to low latitudes after cold surge outbreaks.

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“…Variability of AO can exert pronounced influences on weather and climate anomalies over many parts of the globe (e.g., Wallace 1998, 2000;Gong et al 2001Gong et al , 2002Gong et al , 2011Wu and Wang 2002;Gong and Ho 2003;Chen et al 2005Chen et al , 2013aJeong and Ho 2005;Chen and Li 2007;Huang et al 2007;Park et al 2011;Cheung et al 2012;Choi et al 2012;Kim and Ahn 2012;Woo et al 2012). For example, significant positive (negative) surface temperature anomalies can be observed over most parts of Eurasia when the boreal wintertime AO is in its positive (negative) phase (e.g., Thompson and Wallace 1998;Gong et al 2001;Chen and Zhou 2012).…”

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confidence: 96%