{"title":"Recently Intensified Tropical-Extratropical Linkage Modulated by Arctic Sea Ice Loss","authors":"Xiang Zhang, Bingyi Wu","doi":"10.1029/2024GL114436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL114436","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Through data analysis and numerical simulations, this study reveals the winter Arctic Warming Pattern (AWP), characterized by anticyclonic anomalies over the North Pacific and the Urals, which plays a pivotal role in linking the Arctic and tropics. The AWP is significantly correlated with the tropical Pacific Walker Circulation (PWC). Since the decadal shift of the AWP in 2003, the relationship between the AWP and the PWC has intensified over the past two decades. Model simulations suggest that this enhanced AWP-PWC linkage is attributed to the recent shift to a low Arctic sea ice state after 2004. The results show that the shrinking Arctic sea ice promotes the AWP, contributing to the robust responses of zonal winds over the Pacific, further enhancing the PWC and ultimately driving the recent intensification of the tropical-extratropical linkage.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"52 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL114436","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144100622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constraining Kilometer-Scale Mountain Snow Transport and Snowshed Areas","authors":"E. N. Boardman","doi":"10.1029/2024GL113599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL113599","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Snow transport (wind drifting and avalanches) can concentrate a large amount of water into a relatively small area, in contrast to precipitation, which is spatially smoother. I develop a framework to constrain the minimum effective seasonal transport necessary to explain observed snowpack patterns. In the Wind River Range, Wyoming, extensive deep snow (4–6 m snow water equivalent, >0.01 km<sup>2</sup>) is the result of long-distance transport, with about half of the seasonal accumulation originating >1 km upwind. Cirque glaciers on the downwind margins of alpine plateaus can accumulate snow from contributing source areas exceeding 2–3 km<sup>2</sup>. Interbasin snow transport augments local snowfall by at least 22% in a glaciated first-order stream catchment (2 km<sup>2</sup>), with the upwind “snowshed” doubling the effective catchment area. Snow imported across topographic divides is equivalent to 7% of annual streamflow in a 125 km<sup>2</sup> watershed. Kilometer-scale snow transport is an underappreciated driver of mountain snowpack heterogeneity.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"52 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL113599","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Unique Mechanism of Ozone Surges Jointly Triggered by Deep Stratospheric Intrusions and the Tibetan Plateau Topographic Forcing","authors":"Yuqing Zhang, Tianliang Zhao, Guicai Ning, Xiangde Xu, Zhixiong Chen, Mengwei Jia, Xiaoyun Sun, Zhuozhi Shu, Zhen Lu, Jane Liu, Xiushu Qie","doi":"10.1029/2024GL114207","DOIUrl":"10.1029/2024GL114207","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Given our poor understanding on mechanisms of stratospheric intrusions (SI) upon near-surface ozone (O<sub>3</sub>) surges, predicting the SI-induced O<sub>3</sub> pollution pose inherent difficulties. Taking a wintertime O<sub>3</sub> surge episode over the Sichuan Basin (SCB) as an example, we find SI contribute 47.8% to near-surface O<sub>3</sub> levels and reveal the underlying mechanisms. Tropopause folding nearly extends to the deep atmospheric boundary layer over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) due to topographic forcing, driving stratospheric O<sub>3</sub> penetration into the TP's near-surface. The intruded O<sub>3</sub> is subsequently transported into the downstream SCB by strong downdrafts along the TP's leeward slope. Interestingly, the mountain-plains solenoid between the TP and the SCB strengthens the downward intrusions of O<sub>3</sub> during both daytime and nighttime, further amplifying the contribution of SI to the SCB's near-surface O<sub>3</sub> levels. This unique mechanism of O<sub>3</sub> surges could provide new insights for the forecast of unexpected nocturnal high-O<sub>3</sub> episodes.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"52 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL114207","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144087943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WoFSCast: A Machine Learning Model for Predicting Thunderstorms at Watch-to-Warning Scales","authors":"Montgomery L. Flora, Corey Potvin","doi":"10.1029/2024GL112383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL112383","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Developing AI models that match or exceed the forecast skill of numerical weather prediction (NWP) systems but run much more quickly is a burgeoning area of research. Most AI-NWP models, however, have been trained on global ECMWF Reanalysis version 5 data, which does not resolve storm-scale evolution. We have therefore adapted Google's GraphCast framework for limited-area, storm-scale domains, then trained on archived forecasts from the Warn-on-Forecast System (WoFS), a convection-allowing ensemble with 5-min forecast output. We evaluate the WoFSCast predictions using object-based verification, grid-based verification, spatial storm structure assessments, and spectra analysis. The WoFSCast closely emulates the WoFS environment fields, matches 70%–80% of WoFS storms out to 2-hr forecast times, and suffers only modest blurring. When verified against observed storms, WoFSCast produces contingency table statistics and fractions skill scores similar to WoFS. WoFSCast demonstrates that AI-NWP can be extended to rapidly evolving, small-scale phenomena like thunderstorms.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"52 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL112383","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144085011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trans-Seasonal Vegetation-Land-Atmosphere Interactions Explained Record-Breaking Cascading Extremes in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River","authors":"Ning An, Yang Chen, Zhen Liao, Jianying Li","doi":"10.1029/2024GL114165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL114165","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The upper reaches of the Yangtze River observed record-breaking droughts, heatwaves, and forest fires in rapid sequence during the 2022 summer, challenging the established mechanistic understanding. We here explained the compound event through a trans-seasonal vegetation-land-atmosphere interacting perspective. The wetter spring-sunnier summer pattern resulted in record high loads of vegetation and enhanced transpiration. This led to progressive depletion of soil moisture to a critical threshold that shifted the originally weak response of air temperature into hypersensitive mode. The resulting rapid rise of air temperature amplified atmospheric evaporative demand to an unprecedentedly high level, which in turn exacerbated the drying-out of soil and vegetation. These favorable weather and fuel factors combined to cause unseasonal forest fires of unprecedented burning intensity. Our results remind of preparedness against drought-heat-fire compounding hazards even in humid regions under opportune configurations between ecological and meteorological conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"52 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL114165","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144085010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amber M. Holdsworth, Andrew Shao, James R. Christian
{"title":"Clustering to Characterize Extreme Marine Conditions for the Benthic Region of the Northeastern Pacific Continental Margin","authors":"Amber M. Holdsworth, Andrew Shao, James R. Christian","doi":"10.1029/2024GL112591","DOIUrl":"10.1029/2024GL112591","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Anthropogenic <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mtext>CO</mtext>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> ${text{CO}}_{2}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> emissions lead to ocean warming, deoxygenation and acidification. Superimposed on long-term trends are episodic extremes of temperature, oxygen, and acidity. Here we present an innovative method for assessing single and compound extremes using a high-resolution regional model of the Northeastern Pacific Ocean. We use an unsupervised clustering approach to identify regions with similar habitat characteristics near the seafloor, define extreme thresholds seasonally using a fixed baseline (1996–2020) within each cluster, and quantify the fraction of ocean waters that exceed these thresholds for both single and compound stressors. Compound extremes (most commonly of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>O</mi>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> ${mathrm{O}}_{2}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> and acidification) are rare but show an increasing trend in some clusters. Potential predictability of occurrence of extremes is demonstrated by correlation with basin-scale climate variability.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"52 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL112591","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144087938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflective Body Waves Extracted From 1 Month of Global Microseisms Illuminate the Perturbed Mantle Transition Zone Beneath SW Japan","authors":"Ping Zhang, Kiwamu Nishida, Hongjian Fang","doi":"10.1029/2025GL116419","DOIUrl":"10.1029/2025GL116419","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The recent cataloging of global microseisms benefits imaging of the Earth's interior with improved data coverage. Relying on the catalog, converted waves were extracted and employed to reveal variations of the mantle discontinuities beneath Japan. Here, we extract reflected body waves with merely 1 month of continuous recordings, leveraging the abundant microseisms in the southern hemisphere. We convert the extracted reflections to depth and find consistent features with previous studies, such as a depressed 660 km discontinuity due to the subducting Pacific slab. Moreover, we observe strong reflections associated with an elevated 410 km discontinuity westward of the slab, a feature predicted from thermo-chemical models but not imaged previously. This work probes the complementary potentials of reflected waves from global microseisms and provides new tools for future investigation of the Earth's interior, especially in temporary deployments during which usable earthquakes as sources are often scarce.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"52 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2025GL116419","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144087940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CYGNSS Satellite Sampling of Surface Heat Fluxes Across Atmospheric River Life Cycles","authors":"Shakeel Asharaf, Bin Guan, Duane E. Waliser","doi":"10.1029/2024GL113370","DOIUrl":"10.1029/2024GL113370","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study employs CYGNSS data to explore the life cycle of atmospheric rivers (ARs) on a near global scale, focusing on ocean surface turbulent heat flux variations. Using spaceborne measurements matched to different stages of full AR life cycles for the first time, we show declining latent and sensible heat fluxes throughout the AR life cycle, with the latent heat flux dominating. The observed reduction in heat fluxes, despite increasing wind speed, suggests that temperature and humidity vertical gradients are the primary drivers of these changes during the AR life cycle. The decreasing temperature and humidity gradients indicate rapid declines in air temperature and humidity levels relative to the ocean surface. Our findings suggest the potential role of air-sea interactions in driving moisture transport from the tropics to higher latitudes within ARs, and offer a satellite-based benchmark for improving model fidelity in representing air-sea processes during ARs.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"52 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL113370","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144087946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristóf Porkoláb, Evangelos Moulas, Stefan M. Schmalholz
{"title":"Modeling the Interplay Between Reaction Progress, Deformation and Stress Field Evolution During Antigorite Dehydration: Implications for Intermediate-Depth Seismicity","authors":"Kristóf Porkoláb, Evangelos Moulas, Stefan M. Schmalholz","doi":"10.1029/2024GL113865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL113865","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Dehydration reactions in subducted slabs have long been correlated with embrittlement and intermediate-depth earthquakes. However, the physical process of dehydration embrittlement remains unclear due to the complex and poorly constrained interactions between reaction progress, fluid pressure evolution, and deformation. Here we aim to quantify these interactions during antigorite dehydration with 2D hydro-mechanical-chemical numerical modeling and explore whether the reaction causes stress perturbations potentially leading to earthquakes. Negative total volume change during the reaction acts toward the relaxation of fluid overpressures, decreasing the chance of embrittlement. The reaction zone is the least likely to fracture due to reaction-induced weakening and the locally larger increase of total pressure compared to fluid pressure. However, weakening also generates fluid overpressure zones and may induce strain localization/runaway processes potentially leading to brittle failure. Our results also imply that antigorite dehydration could be both the cause and effect of fast deformation in subducted slabs.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"52 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL113865","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Variability of Earth's Magnetopause and Bow Shock Locations Modeled via Multi-Decade Solar Wind Observations","authors":"Kiley L. Yeakel, Ian Cohen, Drew L. Turner","doi":"10.1029/2025GL115462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115462","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Numerous studies have explored modeling the shape of Earth's magnetopause (MP) and bow shock (BS) as a function of incident solar wind conditions, utilizing either magnetohydrodynamic model data or observations of boundary crossings from orbiting spacecraft. Here we present a novel method for modeling the variance of the location of the BS and MP location as a function of solar wind variability. We utilize 27 years of OMNI solar wind data to drive a Monte Carlo simulation in which 1,000 solar wind conditions are randomly drawn and the MP and BS locations are simulated. Leveraging ray tracing, we have aggregated the Lin et al. (2010, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009ja014235) and Nguyen et al. (2022c, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021ja030112) models of the MP and Jeřáb et al. (2005, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2004.09.032) and Chapman and Cairns (2003, https://doi.org/10.1029/2002ja009569) models of the BS to produce 3D models for the 75%, 90%, 95%, and 99% quantiles of both surfaces, along with average and median locations.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"52 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2025GL115462","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144085009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}