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Atmospheric Precipitation Within the Selenga River Basin and Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Over Eurasia in July

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Data from the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) were used in investigating long-term variability of anomalies of the total amount of atmospheric precipitation within the Selenga river basin in July. We identified several long periods (four years and longer) with negative precipitation anomalies: 1935–1939, 1955–1958, 1977–1981, 2007–2011, and 2013–2017. The last period is characterized by the smallest precipitation amount. Day-to-day variations in total precipitation were also analyzed for each July from 1982 to 2016. The analysis revealed a tendency to a decrease of the number of days with a large precipitation amount and to an increase of dry periods. Based on ECMWF Era Interim data, we examined the features in the atmospheric blocking Europe, Siberia and the Far East for periods with large and small precipitation amounts within the Selenga river basin. To identify the blocking in the atmosphere used the southern gradient of the geopotential. It was shown that in periods with large precipitation amounts blockings occurred most frequently over Eastern Siberia and more rarely over Europe and the Far East (especially if they were accompanied by blocking over Western Siberia). Atmospheric precipitation within the Selenga basin is associated not only with blocking but also with the position of the jet stream and with dynamic blocking formation schemes. The significance of these factors has been demonstrated in a number of specific situations of the atmospheric circulation in years with large and small precipitation amounts within the Selenga basin. Long-term transformations of these characteristics caused by climate change and the general atmospheric circulation can lead to a disturbance of the correlations between blocking and precipitation amounts within the river basin. In all likelihood, the correlation of blocking with precipitation regimes, rather than with precipitation in the region, will be more rigid. A functional dependence of the Selenga flow on climate change appears to be determined by the position of the monsoon front and by the wave properties of atmospheric flows in midlatitudes.

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This work was done with the financial support from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (17-77-10035).

Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Geografiya i Prirodnye Resursy, 2019, Vol. 40, No., pp. 104–115.

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Antokhina, O.Y. Atmospheric Precipitation Within the Selenga River Basin and Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Over Eurasia in July. Geogr. Nat. Resour. 40, 373–383 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1875372819040097

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