Eurasian Summertime Intraseasonal Oscillation and its impact on compound hot-dry extremes

Mid- to high-latitude intraseasonal dynamics remain an underappreciated driver of summertime compound extremes over the Eurasian continent. Here, we identify the Eurasian Summertime Intraseasonal Oscillation (ESISO), a coherent propagating intraseasonal mode defined by the leading EOF pair of Eurasian summertime surface air temperature variability, using JRA-3Q reanalysis, and examine its future changes through large-ensemble climate simulations (d4PDF). The ESISO propagates southeastward from the Western Siberian Plain toward East Asia via Rossby wave energy dispersion, maintaining a predominantly equivalent barotropic structure. This propagation exerts striking phase-dependent control on compound hot-dry extremes across the Eurasian continent: the probability of simultaneously exceeding the 90th percentile thresholds of daily maximum temperature (TMX) and vapor pressure deficit (VPD) increases approximately 20-fold over East Asia during warm phases compared to cold phases (15.8% vs 0.8%). Under +4 K warming, the fundamental spatial structure of the ESISO remains robust, while the frequency of intense events (amplitude > 2σ) increases significantly in most phases and the associated anomalies strengthen modestly, amplifying compound hot-dry extreme risk along the propagation pathway. These results establish the ESISO as a distinct mid- to high-latitude contributor to Eurasian compound extremes that complements existing tropical and subtropical forcing frameworks, and as a key dynamical contributor with implications for subseasonal prediction of heat-drought co-occurrences and climate risk management across the Eurasian continent.

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npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
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2026-09-15
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-026-01549-8
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Climate variability and models
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Eurasian Summertime Intraseasonal Oscillation and its impact on compound hot-dry extremes

Yu Kosaka, Joowan Kim, Jeong-Hun Kim
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Climate variability and models
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Eurasian Summertime Intraseasonal Oscillation and its impact on compound hot-dry extremes

Yu Kosaka, Joowan Kim, Jeong-Hun Kim
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Abstract

Mid- to high-latitude intraseasonal dynamics remain an underappreciated driver of summertime compound extremes over the Eurasian continent. Here, we identify the Eurasian Summertime Intraseasonal Oscillation (ESISO), a coherent propagating intraseasonal mode defined by the leading EOF pair of Eurasian summertime surface air temperature variability, using JRA-3Q reanalysis, and examine its future changes through large-ensemble climate simulations (d4PDF). The ESISO propagates southeastward from the Western Siberian Plain toward East Asia via Rossby wave energy dispersion, maintaining a predominantly equivalent barotropic structure. This propagation exerts striking phase-dependent control on compound hot-dry extremes across the Eurasian continent: the probability of simultaneously exceeding the 90th percentile thresholds of daily maximum temperature (TMX) and vapor pressure deficit (VPD) increases approximately 20-fold over East Asia during warm phases compared to cold phases (15.8% vs 0.8%). Under +4 K warming, the fundamental spatial structure of the ESISO remains robust, while the frequency of intense events (amplitude > 2σ) increases significantly in most phases and the associated anomalies strengthen modestly, amplifying compound hot-dry extreme risk along the propagation pathway. These results establish the ESISO as a distinct mid- to high-latitude contributor to Eurasian compound extremes that complements existing tropical and subtropical forcing frameworks, and as a key dynamical contributor with implications for subseasonal prediction of heat-drought co-occurrences and climate risk management across the Eurasian continent.

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Kongju National University (KR), The University of Tokyo (JP)
Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Kongju National University, Korea Polar Research Institute, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
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