Weather and Climate Dynamics
Weather and Climate Dynamics
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Articles | Volume 2, issue 3
Articles | Volume 2, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-581-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-581-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 2, issue 3
Research article
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12 Jul 2021
Research article |  | 12 Jul 2021

An unsupervised learning approach to identifying blocking events: the case of European summer

Carl Thomas, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Gerald Lim, Joanna Haigh, and Peer Nowack

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Atmospheric blocking events are complex large-scale weather patterns which block the path of the jet stream. They are associated with heat waves in summer and cold snaps in winter. Blocking is poorly understood, and the effect of climate change is not clear. Here, we present a new method to study blocking using unsupervised machine learning. We show that this method performs better than previous methods used. These results show the potential for unsupervised learning in atmospheric science.
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