Spring land temperature anomalies in northwestern US and the summer drought over Southern Plains and adjacent areas | |
Xue, Yongkang1,2; Oaida, Catalina M.2; Diallo, Ismaila1; Neelin, J. David2; Li, Suosuo1,3; De Sales, Fernando1,4; Gu, Yu2; Robinson, David A.5; Vasic, Ratko6; Yi, Lan7 | |
刊名 | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
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2016-04-01 | |
卷号 | 11期号:4页码:12 |
关键词 | land temperature US drought and heat regional climate model southern great plains sea surface temperature |
ISSN号 | 1748-9326 |
DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/044018 |
通讯作者 | Xue, Yongkang(yxue@geog.ucla.edu) |
英文摘要 | Recurrent drought and associated heatwave episodes are important features of the US climate. Many studies have examined the connection between ocean surface temperature changes and conterminous US droughts. However, remote effects of large-scale land surface temperature variability, over shorter but still considerable distances, on US regional droughts have been largely ignored. The present study combines two types of evidence to address these effects: climate observations and model simulations. Our analysis of observational data shows that springtime land temperature in northwest US is significantly correlated with summer rainfall and surface temperature changes in the US Southern Plains and its adjacent areas. Our model simulations of the 2011 Southern Plains drought using a general circulation model and a regional climate model confirm the observed relationship between land temperature anomaly and drought, and suggest that the long-distance effect of land temperature changes in the northwest US on Southern Plains droughts is probably as large as the more familiar effects of ocean surface temperatures and atmospheric internal variability. We conclude that the cool 2011 springtime climate conditions in the northwest US increased the probability of summer drought and abnormal heat in the Southern Plains. The present study suggests a strong potential for more skillful intra-seasonal predictions of US Southern Plains droughts when such facts as ones presented here are considered. |
收录类别 | SCI |
WOS关键词 | CONTERMINOUS UNITED-STATES ; NORTH-AMERICAN DROUGHT ; SOIL-MOISTURE ; GLOBAL CLIMATE ; HEAT-WAVE ; VARIABILITY ; PRECIPITATION ; MODEL ; ENSO ; 20TH-CENTURY |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
语种 | 英语 |
出版者 | IOP PUBLISHING LTD |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000375746800022 |
内容类型 | 期刊论文 |
URI标识 | http://www.corc.org.cn/handle/1471x/2557328 |
专题 | 寒区旱区环境与工程研究所 |
通讯作者 | Xue, Yongkang |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Geog, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA 2.Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Atmospher & Ocean Sci, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Cold & Arid Reg Environm & Engn Res Inst, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China 4.San Diego State Univ, San Diego, CA 92182 USA 5.Rutgers State Univ, Dept Geog, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA 6.Natl Ctr Environm Predict, College Pk, MD 20740 USA 7.Chinese Acad Meteorol Sci, Beijing 10081, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Xue, Yongkang,Oaida, Catalina M.,Diallo, Ismaila,et al. Spring land temperature anomalies in northwestern US and the summer drought over Southern Plains and adjacent areas[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2016,11(4):12. |
APA | Xue, Yongkang.,Oaida, Catalina M..,Diallo, Ismaila.,Neelin, J. David.,Li, Suosuo.,...&Yi, Lan.(2016).Spring land temperature anomalies in northwestern US and the summer drought over Southern Plains and adjacent areas.ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,11(4),12. |
MLA | Xue, Yongkang,et al."Spring land temperature anomalies in northwestern US and the summer drought over Southern Plains and adjacent areas".ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 11.4(2016):12. |
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