Analysis and Discussion of Atmospheric Precursor of European Heat Summers

Figure 1

Anomalies of the seasons regional mean (SRM, for definition please refer to Träger-Chatterjee et al. [23]) of solar irradiation [Wm⁻²] during winter-spring transition season FMA (green) and summer season JJA (red) in all years of the time series 1958–2011. Years marked with their number had (highly) extreme anomalies in FMA and/or JJA. Figure taken from Träger-Chatterjee et al. [23].