Increase in the number of explosive low‒level cyclones around King George Island in the last three decades

This paper documents an increase in the number of observed explosive cyclones (EC) at King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, over the 1989‒2020 period. In ECs at 60o latitudes the surface atmospheric pressure drops ≥24 hPA in 24 hours. The annual EC frequency time series shows a sig...

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Vydané v:Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências Ročník 94; číslo suppl 1; s. e20210633
Hlavní autori: SETZER, ALBERTO W., KAYANO, MARY T., OLIVEIRA, MARCELO R., CERÓN, WILMAR L., ROSA, MARCELO B.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Brazil Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2022
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES
climate variability
low-frequency variability
explosive cyclones
trends
sea surface temperature
ISSN:0001-3765, 1678-2690, 1678-2690
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Shrnutí:This paper documents an increase in the number of observed explosive cyclones (EC) at King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, over the 1989‒2020 period. In ECs at 60o latitudes the surface atmospheric pressure drops ≥24 hPA in 24 hours. The annual EC frequency time series shows a significant positive trend of ~2.7 cyclones/decade, with a break in 2003 and average numbers of 7.3 and 11.8 events before and after that break, respectively. The increase follows closely earlier documented global sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly trends for the 1981‒2018 period, partially attributed to global warming and to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). Connections between EC frequency and SST might occur through variations in SST in the southeastern Pacific and southwestern Atlantic, with anomalous cold conditions favoring an increase in ECs. We also found close relations between the number of ECs with simultaneous occurrences of PDO and Atlantic multidecadal oscillation in opposite phases, so that after 2003 they were in the cold and warm phases, respectively, and vice-versa before 2003. Both low-frequency modes seem to modulate the number of ECs. As per the authors knowledge these results have not been discussed before and may help climate modeling studies and weather forecasts.
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ISSN:0001-3765
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DOI:10.1590/0001-3765202220210633