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Climatological Characteristics of Heavy Rainfall in Northern Pakistan and Atmospheric Blocking over Western Russia
| Title: | Climatological Characteristics of Heavy Rainfall in Northern Pakistan and Atmospheric Blocking over Western Russia |
| Authors: | Yamada, Tomohito J. Browse this author →KAKEN DB | | Takeuchi, Daiki Browse this author | | Farukh, M. A. Browse this author | | Kitano, Yoshikazu Browse this author |
| Keywords: | Hydrologic cycle | | Climate variability |
| Issue Date: | 6-Oct-2016 |
| Publisher: | AMS |
| Journal Title: | Journal of Climate |
| Volume: | 29 |
| Issue: | 21 |
| Start Page: | 7743 |
| End Page: | 7754 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0445.1 |
| Abstract: | Pakistan and northwestern India have frequently experienced severe heavy rainfall events during the boreal summer over the last 50 years including an event in late July and early August 2010 due to a sequence of monsoon surges. This study identified five dominant atmospheric patterns by applying principal component analysis and k-means clustering to a long-term sea level pressure dataset from 1979 to 2014. Two of these five dominant atmospheric patterns corresponded with a high frequency of the persistent atmospheric blocking index and positive sea level pressure over western Russia as well as an adjacent meridional trough ahead of northern Pakistan. In these two groups, a negative sea surface temperature anomaly was apparent over the equatorial mid- to eastern Pacific Ocean. The heavy precipitation periods with high persistent blocking frequency in western Russia as in the 2010 heat wave tended to have 1.2 times larger precipitation intensity compared to the whole of the heavy precipitation periods during the 36 years. |
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| Type: | article |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/63744 |
| Appears in Collections: | 工学院・工学研究院 (Graduate School of Engineering / Faculty of Engineering) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: 山田 朋人
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