Abstract
AbstractIn late January 2019, a severe cold air outbreak brought the lowest temperatures in over 20 years to Midwestern United States and Eastern Canada. With a newly developed functional analysis tool, namely, multiscale window transform, and the multiscale window transform‐based theory of canonical transfer, it is found, based on the data from National Center for Environmental Prediction, that the cold surge, though initialized by the southward migration of the Arctic air mass, is mainly caused by a synchronization between perturbation temperature and perturbation winds, which leads to a very strong baroclinic instability and hence an explosive growth of available potential energy on the cold surge scale window. The cold event is actually a part of a localized stationary wave train, sandwiched between two warming centers, over western North America and over Atlantic. The synchronization can serve as a precursor for this extremely severe cold surge.
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