Studying Summer Season Drought in Western Russia
During the 2010 summer, a severe drought impacted Western Russia, including regions surrounding Moscow and Belgorod (about 700 km south of Moscow). The drought was accompanied by high temperatures. Moscow recorded 37.8°C (100°F) for the first time in over 130 years of record keeping. The record heat...
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| author | Anthony R. Lupo Igor I. Mokhov Yury G. Chendev Maria G. Lebedeva Mirseid Akperov Jason A. Hubbart |
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| description | During the 2010 summer, a severe drought impacted Western Russia, including regions surrounding Moscow and Belgorod (about 700 km south of Moscow). The drought was accompanied by high temperatures. Moscow recorded 37.8°C (100°F) for the first time in over 130 years of record keeping. The record heat, high humidity, dry weather, and smoke from forest fires caused increased human mortality rates in the Moscow region during the summer. The excessive heat and humidity in Western Russia were the result of atmospheric blocking from June through mid-August. The NCAR-NCEP reanalyses were used to examine blocking in the Eastern European and Western Russia sector during the spring and summer seasons from 1970 to 2012. We found that drier years were correlated with stronger and more persistent blocking during the spring and summer seasons. During these years, the Moscow region was drier in the summer and Belgorod during the spring seasons. In the Moscow region, the drier summers were correlated with transitions from El Niño to La Niña, but the opposite was true in the Belgorod region. Synoptic flow regimes were then analyzed and support the contention that dry years are associated with more blocking and El Niño transitions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c287abc0fa9e4a42bd9ee293143d75e52025-02-03T05:49:37ZengWileyAdvances in Meteorology1687-93091687-93172014-01-01201410.1155/2014/942027942027Studying Summer Season Drought in Western RussiaAnthony R. Lupo0Igor I. Mokhov1Yury G. Chendev2Maria G. Lebedeva3Mirseid Akperov4Jason A. Hubbart5Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science, 302 E Anheuser Busch Natural Resources Building, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USAA.M. Obukhov Inst. of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 3 Pyzhevsky, Moscow 119017, RussiaNatural Resources Management and Land Cadastre (Yu. Chendev), Faculty of Mining and Natural Resources Management, 85 Pobeda Street Building No. 14, Floor 2, Room 2-11, Belgorod 308015, RussiaNatural Resources Management and Land Cadastre (Yu. Chendev), Faculty of Mining and Natural Resources Management, 85 Pobeda Street Building No. 14, Floor 2, Room 2-11, Belgorod 308015, RussiaA.M. Obukhov Inst. of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 3 Pyzhevsky, Moscow 119017, RussiaDepartment of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science, 302 E Anheuser Busch Natural Resources Building, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USADuring the 2010 summer, a severe drought impacted Western Russia, including regions surrounding Moscow and Belgorod (about 700 km south of Moscow). The drought was accompanied by high temperatures. Moscow recorded 37.8°C (100°F) for the first time in over 130 years of record keeping. The record heat, high humidity, dry weather, and smoke from forest fires caused increased human mortality rates in the Moscow region during the summer. The excessive heat and humidity in Western Russia were the result of atmospheric blocking from June through mid-August. The NCAR-NCEP reanalyses were used to examine blocking in the Eastern European and Western Russia sector during the spring and summer seasons from 1970 to 2012. We found that drier years were correlated with stronger and more persistent blocking during the spring and summer seasons. During these years, the Moscow region was drier in the summer and Belgorod during the spring seasons. In the Moscow region, the drier summers were correlated with transitions from El Niño to La Niña, but the opposite was true in the Belgorod region. Synoptic flow regimes were then analyzed and support the contention that dry years are associated with more blocking and El Niño transitions.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/942027 |
| spellingShingle | Anthony R. Lupo Igor I. Mokhov Yury G. Chendev Maria G. Lebedeva Mirseid Akperov Jason A. Hubbart Studying Summer Season Drought in Western Russia Advances in Meteorology |
| title | Studying Summer Season Drought in Western Russia |
| title_full | Studying Summer Season Drought in Western Russia |
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