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Future reduction of cold extremes over East Asia due to thermodynamic and dynamic warming
Donghuan Li
Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Tianjun Zhou
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LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China
Youcun Qi
Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Liwei Zou
LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Wenxia Zhang
LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Xiaolong Chen
LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Two sets of climate model simulations are used to investigate the dynamic and thermodynamic factors of future change in cold extremes in East Asia. Dynamic factor accounted for over 80 % of cold-month temperature anomalies in past 50 years. The intensity of cold extreme is expected to decrease by 5 ℃, with thermodynamic factor contributing ~ 75 % by the end of the 21st century. Changes in dynamic factor are driven by an upward trend of positive Arctic Oscillation-like sea level pressure pattern.
Two sets of climate model simulations are used to investigate the dynamic and thermodynamic...
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