The non-stationary nature of Türkiye’s climate response to teleconnection patterns: A 75-year evolutionary analysis of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oscillations (1950–2024)
摘要
This study reassesses the temporal evolution of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and Arctic Oscillation (AO) influences on Türkiye’s regional temperature and precipitation during 1950–2024 using a harmonised workflow built directly from ERA5-Land monthly anomalies aggregated across seven geographical regions. Twenty-year moving-window correlations were rebuilt from seasonally matched anomaly and index series using a corrected DJF bookkeeping convention, and all downstream diagnostics were re-evaluated under a dependence-aware inference. The rebuilt Mann-Kendall analysis indicated 19 nominally significant trends (p < 0.05) across 112 region-season-variable-index combinations, but only five remained significant after full-family Benjamini-Hochberg correction and 12 remained significant under season-specific empirical effective-test thresholds. Classical Pettitt testing identified 11 candidate changepoints, yet only one remained significant after AR(1)-Monte Carlo reassessment. The null-based evaluation of time-varying coefficient trajectories supports evolving teleconnection sensitivity in only 6 of 112 combinations. Late-record upticks are also shown to be limited, with only six combinations displaying simultaneous raw rebound and positive tail-slope evidence under an AR(1) null. Wavelet behaviour and circulation composites continue to provide physically suggestive context, but these components are interpreted conservatively: regional lag-1 persistence is not spatially uniform, and composite significance is strongest in NAO+ Z500 and TCWV fields, whereas grid cell significance does not survive BH-FDR correction. The clearest supported subsets are concentrated in DJF and, to a lesser extent, JJA and MAM. Overall, the remaining evidence supports selective, regionally heterogeneous, scale-dependent and method-sensitive non-stationarity, rather than a uniform nationwide weakening or a single breakpoint-centred regime shift.