Increased rainfall stimulates permafrost thaw across a variety of Interior Alaskan boreal ecosystems

TA Douglas, MR Turetsky, CD Koven - NPJ Climate and Atmospheric …, 2020 - nature.com
Earth's high latitudes are projected to experience warmer and wetter summers in the future
but ramifications for soil thermal processes and permafrost thaw are poorly understood …

Increasing summer precipitation in arid Central Asia linked to the weakening of the East Asian summer monsoon in the recent decades

C Chen, X Zhang, H Lu, L Jin, Y Du… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
It is generally believed that water vapour from the North Atlantic transported by the mid‐
latitude westerlies dominates precipitation variations in arid Central Asia, where monsoonal …

Extremely wet summer events enhance permafrost thaw for multiple years in Siberian tundra

RÍ Magnússon, A Hamm, SV Karsanaev… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Permafrost thaw can accelerate climate warming by releasing carbon from previously frozen
soil in the form of greenhouse gases. Rainfall extremes have been proposed to increase …

Trends in annual and extreme flows in the Lena River basin, Northern Eurasia

NI Tananaev, OM Makarieva… - Geophysical Research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A long‐term daily streamflow data set, covering the period from 1925 to 2013, was compiled
for the Lena River basin, with an average record length of 49 years. Time series of mean …

Enhanced jet stream waviness induced by suppressed tropical Pacific convection during boreal summer

X Sun, Q Ding, SYS Wang, D Topál, Q Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Consensus on the cause of recent midlatitude circulation changes toward a wavier manner
in the Northern Hemisphere has not been reached, albeit a number of studies collectively …

Poleward upgliding Siberian atmospheric rivers over sea ice heat up Arctic upper air

KK Komatsu, VA Alexeev, IA Repina, Y Tachibana - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
We carried out upper air measurements with radiosondes during the summer over the Arctic
Ocean from an icebreaker moving poleward from an ice-free region, through the ice edge …

Influential climate teleconnections for spatiotemporal precipitation variability in the Lancang‐Mekong River basin from 1952 to 2015

M Irannezhad, J Liu, D Chen - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Lancang‐Mekong River Basin (LMRB) in Mainland Southeast Asia is home to~
70 million people, mostly living in poverty and typically working in primary freshwater …

Potential mechanistic causes of increased baseflow across northern Eurasia catchments underlain by permafrost

SG Evans, B Yokeley, C Stephens… - Hydrological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Warming in the Arctic is occurring at twice the rate of the global average, resulting in
permafrost thaw and a restructuring of the Arctic hydrologic cycle as indicated by increased …

Long-Term trends of extreme climate indexes in the Southern part of Siberia in comparison with those of surrounding regions

T Watanabe, H Matsuyama, I Kuzhevskaia… - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
Siberia, which experienced disastrous heat waves in 2010 and 2012, is one of the regions in
which extreme climate events have occurred recently. To compare the long-term trends of …

Hydrological variability in southern Siberia and the role of permafrost degradation

L Han, L Menzel - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in the cryosphere caused by global warming are expected to alter the
hydrological cycle, with consequences to freshwater availability for humans and …