Relationship between the Brightness Temperature Anomalies of the Lower Troposphere and the Climate Indices in the Southern Urals
- Authors: Vasil’ev D.Y.1,2, Velikanov N.V.1, Vodopyanov V.V.1, Krasnogorskaya N.N.1, Semenov V.A.2,3, Christodulo O.I.1
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Affiliations:
- Ufa State Aviation Technical University
- Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 55, No 9 (2019)
- Pages: 975-985
- Section: Physical Foundation of Earth Observation and Remote Sensing
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0001-4338/article/view/148785
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433819090548
- ID: 148785
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Abstract
The average monthly temperature of the lower troposphere (TLT) retrieved from satellite sensing data for 1979–2017 in the Southern Urals is analyzed. The method of decomposition of the temperature series into empirical orthogonal components (EOCs) was used to study the spatiotemporal TLT structure. Correlation analysis of the identified EOCs for winter and summer seasons and the indices of large-scale modes of natural climatic variability in the Northern Hemisphere is carried out. The first leading EOC, which characterizes a negative temperature trend, produces the main contribution to the overall variability. In winter, the leading mode is associated with the North Atlantic oscillation. In summer, a significant contribution of the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation and the index of the Arctic sea ice concentration anomalies was revealed. This may be used to improve the reliability of forecasting the regional climate change in the coming decades. The results suggest that the natural climatic variability has a considerable effect on the temperature regime and that it might be difficult to isolate the anthropogenic component of climate change in the studied region.
About the authors
D. Yu. Vasil’ev
Ufa State Aviation Technical University; Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: vasilevdy@ugatu.su
Russian Federation, Ufa, 450008; Moscow, 119017
N. V. Velikanov
Ufa State Aviation Technical University
Email: vasilevdy@ugatu.su
Russian Federation, Ufa, 450008
V. V. Vodopyanov
Ufa State Aviation Technical University
Email: vasilevdy@ugatu.su
Russian Federation, Ufa, 450008
N. N. Krasnogorskaya
Ufa State Aviation Technical University
Email: vasilevdy@ugatu.su
Russian Federation, Ufa, 450008
V. A. Semenov
Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: vasilevdy@ugatu.su
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119017; Moscow, 119017
O. I. Christodulo
Ufa State Aviation Technical University
Email: vasilevdy@ugatu.su
Russian Federation, Ufa, 450008