Quantifying human-induced dynamic and thermodynamic contributions to severe cold outbreaks like November 2019 in the Eastern United States

Chunlüe Zhou, Aiguo Dai, Junhong Wang, Deliang Chen

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Abstract

The eastern U.S. 2019 November cold outbreak was mainly caused by extreme northerly winds. CMIP6 results find nonsignificant dynamical effects of anthropogenic climate change on such regional winds; thermodynamic effects alone decreased the probability of this cold event by 70%.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)S17-S23
JournalBulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Volume102
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2021

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