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Climate Domino Effect: Exploring Teleconnections
December 22 , 2023
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- The links between weather phenomena at widely separated locations on earth, also called climate teleconnections, are increasingly getting stronger globally.
- These teleconnections have affected the southern hemisphere more prominently over the last 37 years.
- Teleconnections describe how climate events such as wildfires and floods in one part of the world can affect weather thousands of kilometers away.
- The region’s most vulnerable to teleconnections were in southeastern Australia and South Africa.
- The southern hemisphere is more vulnerable because it is largely covered by oceans.
- It contributes to more stable teleconnections and Rossby wave or planetary wave formation.
- Rossby waves occur in oceans and the atmosphere.
- They naturally occur due to the Earth’s rotation and help transfer heat from the tropics towards the poles and cold air towards the tropics.
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