Contribution of atmospheric circulation to wet north european summer precipitation of 2012 [in "Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective"]
Cattiaux, Julien ; Yiou, Pascal
Northern Europe witnessed anomalously high precipitation rates during the year 2012, especially during summer. The goal of this paper is to put those regional events into the context of long-term variability. In Europe, studies have highlighted that recent temperatures have been systematically warmer than expected due to the North-Atlantic dynamics, which control their intra-seasonal to interannual variability (e.g., Cattiaux et al. 2010; Vautard and Yiou 2009). Here we investigate the contribution of large-scale circulations to the precipitation anomalies of 2012 using the same flow-analogue approach as in the analysis of 2011 temperatures done by Cattiaux and Yiou (2012).
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