Contrasting East Asian climate extremes in 2020 and 2022 tied to zonal flow

• Published in: Environmental research letters Vol. 19; no. 10; pp. 104019 - 104028
• Main Authors: He, Chao, Collins, Matthew, Zhou, Tianjun, Jiang, Xingwen, Wu, Peili, Dunstone, Nick
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.10.2024
• Subjects: Climate; climate extremes; Drought; droughts; Extreme values; floods; Heat waves; Historic floods; Northern Hemisphere; Summer; Troposphere; Vertical motion; Water vapor; Zonal flow (meteorology)

Abstract Subtropical East Asia (STEA) experienced a historic flood in the summer of 2020, and historic drought and heatwaves in the summer of 2022. Previous studies emphasized the role of western Pacific subtropical high (WPSH), but there is a paradox that the contrasting climate extremes over STEA...