Waveguide Teleconnection Mechanisms Driving Summer Compound Heat‐Humidity Extremes in China Land Monsoon Region

Abstract Escalating compound heat‐humidity extremes (CHHEs) pose severe threats to socioeconomic stability and human health. Using the wet‐bulb globe temperature, we reveal summer CHHEs exhibited consistently increasing trends across the China Land Monsoon (CLM) region during 1961–2022, significantly in the northeast and southwest. The 13‐year sliding correlations indicate that since 2000, the British Okhotsk Corridor (BOC)‐Silk Road Pattern (SRP) nexus shifted from a strong to weak state, which influenced CHHEs variability. During the weak BOC‐SRP nexus period, an anomalous high‐pressure system dominated northern China, especially northeastern CLM, and was intensified by negative potential vorticity anomalies through subsidence and diabatic heating. Simultaneously, abundant moisture transport from the western Pacific into northeastern CLM reinforced hot and humid conditions, jointly increasing CHHEs. Over southwestern CLM, the high‐pressure system strengthened anomalous easterlies, which together with negative vorticity advection increased moisture divergence. Additionally, meridional temperature advection promoted warm air accumulation in the lower troposphere, further increasing CHHEs. Finally, the weak BOC‐SRP nexus is modulated by North Atlantic tripole sea surface temperature anomalies by Rossby wave energy divergence, as confirmed by Community Earth System Model simulations. Overall, this study highlights the critical role of mid‐ to high‐latitude teleconnections variable coupling states in regulating CHHEs in the CLM region.

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Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
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2025-10-03
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2025jd043884
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Waveguide Teleconnection Mechanisms Driving Summer Compound Heat‐Humidity Extremes in China Land Monsoon Region

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Waveguide Teleconnection Mechanisms Driving Summer Compound Heat‐Humidity Extremes in China Land Monsoon Region

Jiayi Mu, Rui Hu, Guolin Feng, Shujuan Hu, Pengcheng Yan, Qianrong Ma, Taichen Feng
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Abstract Escalating compound heat‐humidity extremes (CHHEs) pose severe threats to socioeconomic stability and human health. Using the wet‐bulb globe temperature, we reveal summer CHHEs exhibited consistently increasing trends across the China Land Monsoon (CLM) region during 1961–2022, significantly in the northeast and southwest. The 13‐year sliding correlations indicate that since 2000, the British Okhotsk Corridor (BOC)‐Silk Road Pattern (SRP) nexus shifted from a strong to weak state, which influenced CHHEs variability. During the weak BOC‐SRP nexus period, an anomalous high‐pressure system dominated northern China, especially northeastern CLM, and was intensified by negative potential vorticity anomalies through subsidence and diabatic heating. Simultaneously, abundant moisture transport from the western Pacific into northeastern CLM reinforced hot and humid conditions, jointly increasing CHHEs. Over southwestern CLM, the high‐pressure system strengthened anomalous easterlies, which together with negative vorticity advection increased moisture divergence. Additionally, meridional temperature advection promoted warm air accumulation in the lower troposphere, further increasing CHHEs. Finally, the weak BOC‐SRP nexus is modulated by North Atlantic tripole sea surface temperature anomalies by Rossby wave energy divergence, as confirmed by Community Earth System Model simulations. Overall, this study highlights the critical role of mid‐ to high‐latitude teleconnections variable coupling states in regulating CHHEs in the CLM region.

Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresVol. 130(19)
China Meteorological Administration (CN), North China Electric Power University (CN), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (CN), Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) (CN), National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (CN), Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia (MY), Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai) (CN), China Electric Power Research Institute, Lanzhou University (CN), Yangzhou University (CN)
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