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.
Authors
- Yu Kosaka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5575-4668)
- Joowan Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-3425)
- Jeong-Hun Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7752-0846)
Institutions
- Kongju National University (KR)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
- Published
- 2026-09-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-026-01549-8
- Primary Topic
- Climate variability and models
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- 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