Journal Overview

The International Journal of Climatology aims to span the well established but rapidly growing field of climatology, through the publication of research papers, short communications, major reviews of progress and reviews of new books and reports in the area of climate science. The Journal’s main role is to stimulate and report research in climatology, from the expansive fields of the atmospheric, biophysical, engineering and social sciences.

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The Co Editors-in-Chief of the International Journal of Climatology, Enric and Bill, are delighted to share a selection of free-to-read recently published international papers which reflect representative countries and examples of the science that will feed into discussions at COP26. To find out more, click here.
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Association between Recent U.S. Northeast Precipitation Trends and Greenland Blocking

Julia M. Simonson, Sean D. Birkel, Kirk A. Maasch, Paul A. Mayewski, Bradfield Lyon, Andrew M. Carleton,
  •  3 February 2022
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Effects of climate change on major elements of the hydrological cycle in Aksu River basin, Northwest China

Peng Yang, Wenyu Wang, Jun Xia, Yaning Chen, Chesheng Zhan, Shengqing Zhang, Cai Wei, Xiangang Luo, Jiang Li,
  •  2 February 2022
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Characteristics of summer cloud precipitation along latitude 30°N in East Asia derived from TRMM PR and VIRS measurements

Mengxiao Wang, Yunfei Fu, Chun Zhao, Lei Zhong, Rui Li, Dongyong Wang, Xuexing Qiu, Shengnan Zhou,
  •  2 February 2022
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Extension and application of an observation‐based local climate index aimed to anticipate the impact of ENSO events on Colombia

Juan-Manuel Sayol, Laura M. Vasquez, Jorge L. Valencia, Jean R. Linero-Cueto, David Garcia-Garcia, Isabel Vigo, Alejandro Orfila,
  •  2 February 2022
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Accelerated exacerbation of global extreme heatwaves under warming scenarios

Qinmei Han, Shao Sun, Zhao Liu, Wei Xu, Peijun Shi,
  •  2 February 2022
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Historical droughts in Irish catchments 1767–2016

Paul O'Connor, Conor Murphy, Tom Matthews, Robert L. Wilby,
  •  2 February 2022
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Climatology and extreme cases of sea‐effect snowfall on the southern Baltic Sea coast

Ewa Bednorz, Bartosz Czernecki, Arkadiusz M. Tomczyk,
  •  2 February 2022
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Unraveling the backbone of climate networks from the analysis of collective dynamics and time reversal

Leyla Naghipour, Mohammad Taghi Aalami, Vahid Nourani,
  •  2 February 2022
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Comparing the performance of high‐resolution global precipitation products across topographic and climatic gradients of Central Asia

M. D. Peña-Guerrero, A. Umirbekov, L. Tarasova, D. Müller,
  •  2 February 2022
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Characterization of seasons over the extratropics based on the annual daily mean temperature cycle

Noelia López-Franca, Enrique Sánchez, Claudio Menéndez, Andrea F. Carril, Pablo G. Zaninelli, Pedro Flombaum,
  •  2 February 2022
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Comparison of CMIP6 and CMIP5 simulations of precipitation in China and the East Asian summer monsoon

Xiaoge Xin, Tongwen Wu, Jie Zhang, Junchen Yao, Yongjie Fang,
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WRF‐based dynamical downscaling of ERA5 reanalysis data for High Mountain Asia: Towards a new version of the High Asia Refined analysis

Xun Wang, Vanessa Tolksdorf, Marco Otto, Dieter Scherer,
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A comprehensive evaluation of soil moisture and soil temperature from third‐generation atmospheric and land reanalysis data sets

Mingxing Li, Peili Wu, Zhuguo Ma,
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Characterizing precipitation in high altitudes of the western Tibetan plateau with a focus on major glacier areas

Duo Li, Kun Yang, Wenjun Tang, Xin Li, Xu Zhou, Donglin Guo,
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State of the UK Climate 2019

Mike Kendon, Mark McCarthy, Svetlana Jevrejeva, Andrew Matthews, Tim Sparks, Judith Garforth,
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Long‐term variability and trends in meteorological droughts in Western Europe (1851–2018)

Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano, Fernando Domínguez-Castro, Conor Murphy, Jamie Hannaford, Fergus Reig, Dhais Peña-Angulo, Yves Tramblay, Ricardo M. Trigo, Neil Mac Donald, M. Yolanda Luna, Mark Mc Carthy, Gerard Van der Schrier, Marco Turco, Dario Camuffo, Ivan Noguera, Ricardo García-Herrera, Francesca Becherini, Antonio Della Valle, Miquel Tomas-Burguera, Ahmed El Kenawy,
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The observed recent surface air temperature development across Svalbard and concurring footprints in local sea ice cover

Sandro Dahlke, Nicholas E. Hughes, Penelope M. Wagner, Sebastian Gerland, Tomasz Wawrzyniak, Boris Ivanov, Marion Maturilli,
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Czech Drought Monitor System for monitoring and forecasting agricultural drought and drought impacts

Miroslav Trnka, Petr Hlavinka, Martin Možný, Daniela Semerádová, Petr Štěpánek, Jan Balek, Lenka Bartošová, Pavel Zahradníček, Monika Bláhová, Petr Skalák, Aleš Farda, Michael Hayes, Mark Svoboda, Wolfgang Wagner, Josef Eitzinger, Milan Fischer, Zdeněk Žalud,
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Anchoring of atmospheric teleconnection patterns by Arctic Sea ice loss and its link to winter cold anomalies in East Asia

Muyuan Li, Dehai Luo, Ian Simmonds, Aiguo Dai, Linhao Zhong, Yao Yao,
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Reflections of global warming in trends of temperature characteristics in the Czech Republic, 1961–2019

Pavel Zahradníček, Rudolf Brázdil, Petr Štěpánek, Miroslav Trnka,
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The most read articles published in the Last 2 Years

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State of the UK Climate 2020

Mike Kendon, Mark McCarthy, Svetlana Jevrejeva, Andrew Matthews, Tim Sparks, Judith Garforth,
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State of the UK Climate 2019

Mike Kendon, Mark McCarthy, Svetlana Jevrejeva, Andrew Matthews, Tim Sparks, Judith Garforth,
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Greenland surface air temperature changes from 1981 to 2019 and implications for ice‐sheet melt and mass‐balance change

Edward Hanna, John Cappelen, Xavier Fettweis, Sebastian H. Mernild, Thomas L. Mote, Ruth Mottram, Konrad Steffen, Thomas J. Ballinger, Richard J. Hall,
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Extreme precipitation events in the Mediterranean: Spatiotemporal characteristics and connection to large‐scale atmospheric flow patterns

Nikolaos Mastrantonas, Pedro Herrera-Lormendez, Linus Magnusson, Florian Pappenberger, Jörg Matschullat,
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Comparison of CMIP6 and CMIP5 simulations of precipitation in China and the East Asian summer monsoon

Xiaoge Xin, Tongwen Wu, Jie Zhang, Junchen Yao, Yongjie Fang,
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The 2020 Siberian heat wave

James E. Overland, Muyin Wang,
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WRF‐based dynamical downscaling of ERA5 reanalysis data for High Mountain Asia: Towards a new version of the High Asia Refined analysis

Xun Wang, Vanessa Tolksdorf, Marco Otto, Dieter Scherer,
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A comprehensive evaluation of soil moisture and soil temperature from third‐generation atmospheric and land reanalysis data sets

Mingxing Li, Peili Wu, Zhuguo Ma,
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Global exposure of population and land‐use to meteorological droughts under different warming levels and SSPs: A CORDEX‐based study

Jonathan Spinoni, Paulo Barbosa, Edoardo Bucchignani, John Cassano, Tereza Cavazos, Alessandro Cescatti, Jens H. Christensen, Ole B. Christensen, Erika Coppola, Jason P. Evans, Giovanni Forzieri, Beate Geyer, Filippo Giorgi, Daniela Jacob, Jack Katzfey, Torben Koenigk, René Laprise, Christopher J. Lennard, M. Levent Kurnaz, Delei Li, Marta Llopart, Niall McCormick, Gustavo Naumann, Grigory Nikulin, Tugba Ozturk, Hans-Jürgen Panitz, Rosmeri Porfirio da Rocha, Silvina A. Solman, Jozef Syktus, Fredolin Tangang, Claas Teichmann, Robert Vautard, Jürgen V. Vogt, Katja Winger, George Zittis, Alessandro Dosio,
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Comparison of ERA5 surface wind speed climatologies over Europe with observations from the HadISD dataset

María O. Molina, Claudia Gutiérrez, Enrique Sánchez,
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