Influence of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Planetary Wave Resonance and Extreme Weather Events

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 7; no. 1; p. 45242
• Main Authors: Mann, Michael E., Rahmstorf, Stefan, Kornhuber, Kai, Steinman, Byron A., Miller, Sonya K., Coumou, Dim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 27.03.2017; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 704/106/35; 704/106/694; Anthropogenic factors; Climate; Climate change; Climate models; Extreme weather; Humanities and Social Sciences; multidisciplinary; Science; Surface temperature; Temperature effects; Weather

Persistent episodes of extreme weather in the Northern Hemisphere summer have been shown to be associated with the presence of high-amplitude quasi-stationary atmospheric Rossby waves within a particular wavelength range (zonal wavenumber 6–8). The underlying mechanistic relationship involves the ph...