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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-1399-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-1399-2022
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01 Dec 2022
Research article |  | 01 Dec 2022

Signatures of Eurasian heat waves in global Rossby wave spectra

Iana Strigunova, Richard Blender, Frank Lunkeit, and Nedjeljka Žagar

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We show that the Eurasian heat waves (HWs) have signatures in the global circulation. We present changes in the probability density functions (PDFs) of energy anomalies in the zonal-mean state and in the Rossby waves at different zonal scales in relation to the changes in intramonthly variability. The skewness of the PDF of planetary-scale Rossby waves is shown to increase during HWs, while their intramonthly variability is reduced, a process referred to as blocking.
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