2024-03-29T15:47:01Zhttp://digital.csic.es/dspace-oai/requestoai:digital.csic.es:10261/1183132016-02-18T03:29:26Zcom_10261_39226com_10261_8col_10261_42742
2015-07-29T07:44:49Z
urn:hdl:10261/118313
Multidecadal Variability of the Summer Length in Europe
Peña-Ortiz, Cristina
Barriopedro, David
García Herrera, Ricardo
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
Europe
North Atlantic Ocean
Summer/warm season
Multidecadal variability
Trends
Climate
This study analyzes the multidecadal variability of the European summer timing and length. The dates of the summer onset and end are computed through an objective algorithm based on locally defined temperature thresholds applied to the European daily high-resolution gridded dataset (E-OBS) during the period 1950–2012. The results reveal a European mean summer lengthening of 2.4 days decade−1 for the period 1950–2012. However, this trend is confined to the post-1979 period, when lengthening rates range between 5 and 12 days decade−1 over western Europe and the Mediterranean region. In contrast, a widespread summer shortening occurred for the 1950–78 period. The reported changes in the summer length are in agreement with temperature trends during June and September, which affect the summer onset and end dates.
It is shown that the shortening and lengthening with a turning point around 1979 is a leading mode of the summer length multidecadal variability. The trends in the summer length can be explained by the superposition of an Atlantic multidecadal oscillation signal and a long-term trend toward more persistent summers in Europe associated with global warming.
2015-07-29T07:44:49Z
2015-07-29T07:44:49Z
2015-07
artículo
Journal of Climate, 28(13): 5375–5388 (2015)
0894-8755
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/118313
10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00429.1
1520-0442
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003329
eng
Postprint
http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00429.1
Sí
openAccess
American Meteorological Society