Regions Subject to Rainfall Oscillation in the 5–10 Year Band
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Climate 2018, 6(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/cli6010002
Received: 2 December 2017
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Revised: 28 December 2017
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Accepted: 3 January 2018
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Published: 5 January 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Decadal Variability and Predictability of Climate)
The decadal oscillation of rainfall in Europe that has been observed since the end of the 20th century is a phenomenon well known to climatologists. Consequences are considerable because the succession of wet or dry years produces floods or, inversely, droughts. Moreover, much research has tried to answer the question about the possible link between the frequency and the intensity of extra-tropical cyclones, which are particularly devastating, and global warming. This work aims at providing an exhaustive description of the rainfall oscillation in the 5–10 year band during one century on a planetary scale. It is shown that the rainfall oscillation results from baroclinic instabilities over the oceans. For that, a joint analysis of the amplitude and the phase of sea surface temperature anomalies and rainfall anomalies is performed, which discloses the mechanisms leading to the alternation of high and low atmospheric pressure systems. For a prospective purpose, some milestones are suggested on a possible link with very long-period Rossby waves in the oceans.
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Keywords:
rainfall oscillation; extra-tropical cyclones
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Pinault, J.-L. Regions Subject to Rainfall Oscillation in the 5–10 Year Band. Climate 2018, 6, 2. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli6010002
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Pinault J-L. Regions Subject to Rainfall Oscillation in the 5–10 Year Band. Climate. 2018; 6(1):2. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli6010002
Chicago/Turabian StylePinault, Jean-Louis. 2018. "Regions Subject to Rainfall Oscillation in the 5–10 Year Band" Climate 6, no. 1: 2. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli6010002
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