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  • Atmospheric blocking events are significant weather phenomena in mid-latitudes.
  • Future projections of blocking changes are uncertain, impacting climate change assessments.
  • Current climate models often underestimate blocking frequency, leading to low confidence in predictions.

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  • To review the current understanding of atmospheric blocking under climate change.
  • To provide an overview for researchers in related fields.
  • To address uncertainties in climate projections of blocking events.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on atmospheric blocking and climate change.
  • Analysis of climate model performance in simulating blocking.
  • Evaluation of different indices used to identify blocking events.

Main Results:

  • Climate models show a general agreement on a future decline in blocking, but with regional and seasonal variations.
  • Models continue to underestimate blocking occurrence, limiting projection reliability.
  • Understanding of blocking onset, maintenance, and decay processes is still developing.

Conclusions:

  • Robust findings include model underestimation of blocking and a projected future decrease.
  • Confidence in projections requires improved understanding of blocking dynamics and model simulations.
  • Natural variability likely dominates regional blocking trends in the near-term historical record.