Journal
CLIMATE DYNAMICS
Volume 57, Issue 7-8, Pages 2287-2299Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-021-05804-x
Keywords
Sahel; Convective activity; Teleconnection; Rossby wave; Linear regression
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) [16K13880, 17H02958, 17H01156, 17K01223, 19H05698, 19H05668, 20K12197, JPMXD1300000000, JPMXD1420318865]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16K13880, 19H05698, 19H05668, 20K12197, 17H01156, 17K01223, 17H02958] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Deep convection in the Sahel region may exert a remote influence on the climate of East Asia and beyond, potentially expanding our comprehension of teleconnections.
The Sahel region, located between the tropical rainforests of Africa and the Sahara Desert, has rainfall that varies widely from year to year, associated with extremely deep convection. This deep convection, strongly heated by water vapor condensation, suggests the possibility of exerting a remote influence on mid- and high-latitude climate similar to the well-known influences of tropical oceanic convection on global climate. Here we investigate the possibility that deep convection over the Sahel initiates a semi-circumglobal teleconnection extending to eastern Eurasia. Statistical analysis and numerical experiments support the possible existence of this teleconnection at an interannual time scale. We propose that the anomalous heat source due to deep convection over the Sahel in the late monsoon season influences meandering of the mid-latitude jet stream over Europe through the combination of a Matsuno-Gill response and advection of absolute vorticity. This subtropical jet meander may in turn drive an eastward propagation of a Rossby wave across Eurasia as far as East Asia. Because deep convection over other subtropical land areas may exert a similar remote influence upon extratropical extreme weather, further studies of the influence of overland convection may provide us with an expanded comprehension of teleconnections.
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