Heat waves are among the deadliest climate hazards. Yet the relative importance of the
physical processes causing their near-surface temperature anomalies (𝑇′)—advection of …

Earth's upper-level jet streams influence the speed and direction of travel of weather
systems and commercial aircraft, and are linked to severe weather occurrence. Climate …

Global warming involves changes not only in the mean atmospheric temperature, but also in
its variability and extremes. Here, we use a feature-tracking technique to investigate the …

Heat extremes have grown disproportionately since the advent of industrialization and are
expected to intensify further under unabated greenhouse warming, spreading unevenly …

Accurate and reliable gridded data sets are important for analyzing extreme weather and
climate events. Specifically, these data sets should produce extreme value statistics that are …

Kinematic backward trajectories are used to globally quantify the contributions of
temperature advection, adiabatic compression and diabatic processes to near‐surface …

The recent hiatus in global‐mean surface temperature warming was characterized by a
Eurasian winter cooling trend, and the cause (s) for this cooling is unclear. Here we show …

This work investigates the statistical linkage between upper‐tropospheric transient Rossby
wave packets (RWPs) and lower‐tropospheric temperature extremes in the Northern …

Arctic amplification (AA) reduces meridional temperature gradients (dT/dy) over the northern
mid-high latitudes, which may weaken westerly winds. It is suggested that this may lead to …

The atmospheric temperature distribution is typically described by its mean and variance,
while higher-order moments, such as skewness, have received less attention. Skewness is a …