Attribution of April 2020 exceptional cold spell over Northeast China

Yu, H., Yu, X., Zhou, Z., Wang, Y., Li, Y., Nanding, N., Freychet, N., Dong, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0809-7911, Wang, D., Lott, F. C., Tett, S. F. B. and Sparrow, S. (2022) Attribution of April 2020 exceptional cold spell over Northeast China. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. ISSN 0003-0007 doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0175.1

Abstract/Summary

Human-induced thermodynamic effects have declined the likelihood of April 2020-like cold spells over Northeast China by ~ 80%, but such events tend to be triggered by more intense dynamical factors.