scholarly journals Atmospheric circulation anomalies due to 115 kyr BP climate forcing dominated by changes in the North Pacific Ocean

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 815-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis O. Otieno ◽  
David H. Bromwich ◽  
Robert Oglesby
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Atmospheric Circulation ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
North Pacific Ocean ◽  
Climate Forcing ◽  
The North ◽  
Circulation Anomalies ◽  
Atmospheric Circulation Anomalies ◽  
The North Pacific

scholarly journals Significant Atmospheric Circulation Anomalies over the North Pacific Associated with the Enhanced Pacific ITCZ during the Summer–Fall of 2014

SOLA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (0) ◽  
pp. 282-286
Author(s):  
Shuhei Maeda ◽  
Yusuke Urabe ◽  
Kazuto Takemura ◽  
Tamaki Yasuda ◽  
Youichi Tanimoto
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Circulation ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
The North ◽  
Circulation Anomalies ◽  
Atmospheric Circulation Anomalies ◽  
The North Pacific

Winter-to-Winter Recurrence of Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies in the Northern Hemisphere

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (14) ◽  
pp. 3835-3854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xia Zhao ◽  
Jianping Li
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Circulation ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
The North ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies ◽  
Circulation Anomalies ◽  
Atmospheric Circulation Anomalies ◽  
The North Pacific ◽  
Central North Pacific

Abstract The spatiotemporal characteristics of the winter-to-winter recurrence (WWR) of sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) are comprehensively studied through lag correlation analysis. On this basis the relationships between the SSTA WWR and the WWR of the atmospheric circulation anomalies, El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and SSTA interdecadal variability are also investigated. Results show that the SSTA WWR occurs over most parts of the North Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, but the spatiotemporal distributions of the SSTA WWR are distinctly different in these two oceans. Analyses indicate that the spatiotemporal distribution of the SSTA WWR in the North Atlantic Ocean is consistent with the spatial distribution of the seasonal cycle of its mixed layer depth (MLD), whereas that in the North Pacific Ocean, particularly the recurrence timing, cannot be fully explained by the change in the MLD between winter and summer in some regions. In addition, the atmospheric circulation anomalies also exhibit the WWR at the mid–high latitude of the NH, which is mainly located in eastern Asia, the central North Pacific, and the North Atlantic. The sea level pressure anomalies (SLPA) in the central North Pacific are essential for the occurrence of the SSTA WWR in this region. Moreover, the strongest positive correlation occurs when the SLPA lead SSTA in the central North Pacific by 1 month, which suggests that the atmospheric forcing on the ocean may play a dominant role in this region. Therefore, the “reemergence mechanism” is not the only process influencing the SSTA WWR, and the WWR of the atmospheric circulation anomalies may be one of the causes of the SSTA WWR in the central North Pacific. Finally, the occurrence of the SSTA WWR in the NH is closely related to SSTA interdecadal variability in the NH, but it is linearly independent of ENSO.

scholarly journals Is the Interannual Variability of the Summer Asian–Pacific Oscillation Predictable?

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 3865-3876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanyan Huang ◽  
Huijun Wang ◽  
Ping Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Interannual Variability ◽  
Atmospheric Circulation ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Tropospheric Temperature ◽  
Easterly Wind ◽  
The North ◽  
Circulation Anomalies ◽  
Atmospheric Circulation Anomalies ◽  
Asian Pacific ◽  
The North Pacific

Abstract The summer (June–August) Asian–Pacific Oscillation (APO) measures the interannual variability of large-scale atmospheric circulation over the Asian–North Pacific Ocean sector. In this study, the authors assess the predictability of the summer APO index interannual variability and the associated atmospheric circulation anomalies using the 1959–2001 hindcast data from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques (CNRM), and the Met Office (UKMO) general circulation models from the Development of a European Multimodel Ensemble System for Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction (DEMETER) project. The results show that these models predict the summer APO index interannual variability well and have higher skill for the North Pacific than for the Asian upper-tropospheric temperature. Meanwhile, the observed APO-related atmospheric circulation anomalies in the South Asian high, the tropical easterly wind jet over the Asian monsoon region in the upper troposphere, the subtropical anticyclone over the North Pacific, and the summer southwest monsoon over Asia in the lower troposphere are reasonably well predicted in their spatial patterns and intensities. Compared with the observations, however, these models display low skill in predicting the long-term varying trends of the upper-tropospheric temperature over the Asian–North Pacific sector or the APO index during 1959–2001.

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