Affiliation:
1. a Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
2. b Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract
Abstract
Knowledge of regional differences in future climate projections is important for effective adaptation strategies. Extreme events often arise regionally, but multiscale factors likely act together. Hence, we need discussion of multiple scales for the regional characteristics of future changes of extremes. In this study, using a large ensemble climate simulation database (d4PDF) created by global and regional climate models, the change in the temperature extreme defined as the top 10% of summertime daily maximum temperature in Japan is investigated under a globally 2- and 4-K-warmer climate, with emphasis on its regionality. Under global warming, the increase in extremely high temperature has a different spatial distribution from that of mean temperature. A simple composite analysis of extreme events shows that the high temperature occurs under a site-specific spatial pattern of sea level pressure (SLP), with a common feature of a warm anomaly up to the upper troposphere over the sites. The SLP pattern reflects the local topography and favors a foehnlike wind that increases the near-surface temperature. The impact of climate change in SLP on the foehn-inducing pattern varies with site, leading to regional differences in high-temperature changes. Therefore, the dynamic response of SLP to global warming results in a characteristic spatial distribution for the high-temperature change, which differs from the distribution for the mean-temperature change that generally shows the thermodynamic response. The characteristic is expected to appear in mountainous regions of the world, and this study helps in understanding future projections of high temperature there.
Significance Statement
Regionality in future climate projections strongly influences the usefulness of adaptation strategies to climate change. This study indicates that the increase in extremely high temperature has a different spatial distribution from that of mean temperature. A site-specific spatial pattern of sea level pressure (SLP) reflecting the local topography contributes to the location of high temperature via a foehnlike wind. The impact of climate change in SLP on the pattern varies with site and leads to the regionality in high-temperature changes, which is the dynamic response to global warming unlike the thermodynamic response appearing on the mean-temperature change. This study helps us to understand future projections of temperature extreme in mountainous regions and their surroundings around the world.
Funder
Program for the Data Integration and Analysis System (DIAS) of MEXT, Japan
SENTAN program of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
Environment Research and Technology Development Fund of the Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency of Japan
Publisher
American Meteorological Society
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