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Influence of radiation and circulation factors on climate change in Western Siberia at the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century

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An analysis of the air-temperature and atmospheric-pressure fields in Western Siberia is performed based on observations in 1976–2014; a comparison of temperature and pressure variability in two temporal intervals, 1976–2005 and 1985–2014, is carried out. The estimation of contributions from such climate-forming factors as radiation and circulation is performed for the same intervals. It is revealed that an increase in the annual mean ground–air temperature in the investigated region of Western Siberia was still taking place in the period of 1985–2014; however, the warming process was less active than in the 1976–2005 period. Winter months play the largest role in decreasing the temperature growth rate; during these months, the warming process was replaced by a cooling one in the second time interval. It is shown that the circulation factors, that is, the mechanisms described by indices of global circulation, played the dominant role in the period from 1985 to 2014.

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Original Russian Text © E.V. Kharyutkina, S.V. Loginov, I.I. Ippolitov, 2016, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2016, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 651–659.

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Kharyutkina, E.V., Loginov, S.V. & Ippolitov, I.I. Influence of radiation and circulation factors on climate change in Western Siberia at the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 52, 579–586 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433816060098

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