Changing Hydroclimate Dynamics and the 19th to 20th Century Wetting Trend in the English Channel Region of Northwest Europe

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Changing Hydroclimate Dynamics and the 19th to 20th Century Wetting Trend in the English Channel Region of Northwest Europe
المؤلفون: Serena R. Scholz, Richard Seager, Mingfang Ting, Yochanan Kushnir, Jason E. Smerdon, Benjamin I. Cook, Edward R.Cook, Seung Hun Baek
المصدر: Climate Dynamics. 58
بيانات النشر: United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
مصطلحات موضوعية: Meteorology And Climatology
الوصف: Northwestern Europe has experienced a trend of increasingly wet winters over the past 150 years, with few explanations for what may have driven this hydroclimatic change. Here we use the Old World Drought Atlas (OWDA), a tree-ring based reconstruction of the self-calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index (scPDSI), to examine this wetting trend and place it in a longer hydroclimatic context. We find that scPDSI variability in northwestern Europe is strongly correlated with the leading mode of the OWDA during the last millennium (1000–2012). This leading mode, here named the ‘English Channel’ (EC) mode, has pronounced variability on interannual to centennial timescales and has an expression in scPDSI similar to that of the East Atlantic teleconnection pattern. A shift in the EC mode from a prolonged negative phase to more neutral conditions during the 19th and 20th centuries is associated with the wetting trend over its area of influence in England, Wales, and much of northern continental Europe. The EC mode is the dominant scPDSI mode from approximately 1000–1850, after which its dominance waned in favor of the secondary ‘North–South’ (NS) mode, which has an expression in scPDSI similar to that of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). We examine the dynamical nature of both of these modes and how they vary on interannual to centennial timescales. Our results provide insight into the nature of hydroclimate variability in Europe before the widespread availability of instrumental observations.
نوع الوثيقة: Report
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1432-0894
0930-7575
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-021-05977-5
URL الوصول: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210014701
ملاحظات: 509496.02.80.01.15

506496.02.08.11.76

281945.02.03.03.84
رقم الأكسشن: edsnas.20210014701
قاعدة البيانات: NASA Technical Reports
الوصف
تدمد:14320894
09307575
DOI:10.1007/s00382-021-05977-5