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cord-354814-frlc6694	Sanchez-Lorenzo, A.	Anomalous atmospheric circulation favored the spread of COVID-19 in Europe	2020-05-01		.txt	text/plain	3493	176	54	In this study we show that an unusual persistent anticyclonic situation prevailing in southwestern Europe during February 2020 (i.e. anomalously strong positive phase of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oscillations) could have resulted in favorable conditions, in terms of air temperature and humidity, in Italy and Spain for a quicker spread of the virus compared with the rest of the European countries. These results evidence that it seems plausible that the positive phase of the NAO, and the atmospheric conditions associated with it, provided optimal conditions for the spread of the COVID-19 in southern countries like Spain and Italy, where both the start and the most severe impacts of the outbreak in Europe were located. . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.25.20079590 doi: medRxiv preprint patterns described above for the current COVID-19 outbreak, both in terms of the spatial distribution of the mortality of the pandemic over Europe as well as in prevailing atmospheric circulation conditions before the major outbreak.	./cache/cord-354814-frlc6694.txt	./txt/cord-354814-frlc6694.txt