Asymmetry of day-to-day temperature changes and its causes

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/20:10413113

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00704-020-03116-4" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00704-020-03116-4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-020-03116-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00704-020-03116-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Asymmetry of day-to-day temperature changes and its causes

Original language description

Previous studies indicate that the temperature changes from a day to the following day are not normally distributed either in winter or in summer. However, this study is the first to investigate the causes of the asymmetry in these temperature changes. We hypothesised that the asymmetries are driven by the passages of atmospheric fronts and by the radiative processes during anticyclonic circulation conditions. We used the maximum and minimum temperatures observed at the Praha-Karlov station, the records of front passages, and 7 different catalogues of circulation types over central Europe. We demonstrated that the asymmetries in the large temperature changes (5 degrees C and larger) were related to the passages of all three front types in winter and to the passages of cold fronts in summer. The asymmetries in the slight temperature changes (up to 3 degrees C) were mainly caused by cold advection from the north and the northeast in winter and by warm advection from the south, the southeast, and the east in summer. We suppose that our results can be generalized: that is, the passages of atmospheric fronts and cold/warm advection are the likely causes of the asymmetries of the day-to-day temperature changes elsewhere in Europe. The presented findings can be applied as a tool for the validation of climate model outputs.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10509 - Meteorology and atmospheric sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-07043S" target="_blank" >GA17-07043S: Teleconnections - major building blocks of atmospheric circulation</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

ISSN

0177-798X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

140

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

AT - AUSTRIA

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

683-690

UT code for WoS article

000521505600047

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85082633153