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Climate
Winter “weekend effect” in southern Europe and its connections with periodicities in atmospheric dynamics
Article first published online: 14 AUG 2008
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034160
Copyright 2008 by the American Geophysical Union.
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, , , , , and (2008), Winter “weekend effect” in southern Europe and its connections with periodicities in atmospheric dynamics, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L15711, doi:10.1029/2008GL034160.
Publication History
- Issue published online: 14 AUG 2008
- Article first published online: 14 AUG 2008
- Manuscript Accepted: 25 JUN 2008
- Manuscript Revised: 4 JUN 2008
- Manuscript Received: 4 APR 2008
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Keywords:
- weekly cycle;
- Spain;
- atmospheric dynamics
[1] Winter weekly cycles of different climatic variables have been detected over Spain during the 1961–2004 period. The 13 analyzed series come from stations placed on different climatological and geographical areas with different level of urban influence. Therefore, the weekly cycles can hardly be related with local effects. Contrarily, we suggest that the weekly cycles may be related with changes in the atmospheric circulation over Western Europe, which may be due to some indirect effect of anthropogenic aerosols. Particularly interesting is the observed increase in Sea Level Pressure over Southern Europe during the weekends and consequently a decrease of anticyclonic conditions during the central weekdays.