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The tropical heating and transient activity features during the period of the persistent anomaly of summertime circulation over the Ural Mountains are studied, and a possible mechanism responsible for formation and maintenance of persistent anomalies is proposed. The mechanism can be summarized as a kind of self-sustaining through a two-way interaction of stationary wave with transient eddies under the consistent forcing of abnormal heating in the tropics.
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Li, S., Ji, L. & Ni, Y. The persistent anomaly of summertime circulation over the Ural Mountains. Chin.Sci.Bull. 46, 1652–1656 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02900629
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02900629