Many areas of easte China in the 24th collective refresh the lowest temperature this winter record; Russia, being enveloped in the strongest cold snap since 1938, at least 88 people have frozen to death in the past 10 days; Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator, The daytime maximum temperatures close to minus 30 degrees Celsius.
This particularly cold winter? Yes, winter has only just begun. Meteorological experts tell us that much of the world, including the easte United States, including this year will spend an "abnormal" cold winter.
Global warming? Every cold air strikes, people could not help but ask questions. Yes, the warming is an indisputable fact, we can not deny global warming in the cold of winter. Winter this season of the year, while warming the Earth is undergoing a long-term trend. The extreme cold and warm precisely is global warming, we have witnessed more frequent extreme weather events.
Well, this season why so cold? "Atmospheric and Environmental Research institutions responsible for seasonal prediction experts Zab Judah Cohen, said the Siberian region of heavy snowfall in October actually opened a harsh winter this year," Prologue ". The heavy snowfall will affect the direction of the airflow (also known as the jet stream) Polar rapid movement. The snow-covered Siberia over the formation of a strong cold air, the jet stream "deviation" This is like suddenly encountered a boulder in the river.
The jet stream diversions, the energy generated in the process of its fluctuations into the stratosphere, Arctic temperatures rose slightly. This, in tu, would weaken the jet stream, prompting its move to the low-latitude, with the cold air to broader areas of the Northe Hemisphere. This course is called "negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation, American Rutgers University climatologist David Robinson said, at this time especially conducive to the formation of the storm system.
And compared to obscure meteorology nouns, Arctic sea ice and winter related perhaps easier to understand. The latest report of the World Meteorological Organization, the Arctic ice cover near a record low, melting sea ice area from March to September this year as many as 11.83 million square kilometers larger than the land area of the United States.
Sea ice melting Arctic waters led directly to large tracts of bare waters. The dark lines seawater is clearly more than the white sea ice absorbs heat, the air over the Arctic waters become warmer. The bare waters evaporated faster than frozen, warm air can stash more moisture. The moisture-rich air moves to the Siberian region, resulting in a heavy snowfall.
At the same time, Cohen et al Meteorologists believe that the Arctic warm air will slow the jet stream to some extent, it moved south. They believe that the large area of the continental United States this summer drought and winter super cold this.
Overall, North America, Europe and Asia in recent years the cold, unable to change the general trend of global warming. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report shows that, in the world's hottest year on the list, 13 have emerged in the past 15 years. The human being is the adaptation period of extreme weather, cold, also experienced the hot summer heat, violent hurricanes, torrential floods.
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