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Seasonally dependent increases in subweekly temperature variability over Southern Hemisphere landmasses detected in multiple reanalyses
Patrick Martineau
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Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Swadhin K. Behera
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Masami Nonaka
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Hisashi Nakamura
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Yu Kosaka
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Short summary
The representation of subweekly near-surface temperature variability trends over the Southern Hemisphere landmasses is compared across multiple atmospheric reanalyses. It is found that there is generally a good agreement concerning the positive trends affecting South Africa and Australia in the spring, and South America in the summer. A more efficient generation of subweekly temperature variance by horizontal temperature fluxes contributes to the observed rise.
The representation of subweekly near-surface temperature variability trends over the Southern...
