Tropical Pacific link to the two dominant patterns of atmospheric variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Lin, Hai ^a   Derome, Jacques ^a   Brunet, Gilbert ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIND EFFECTS;

BOREAL WINTERS; CIRCULATION MODELS; CONVECTIVE INDEX (CI); EXTRATROPICAL ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 17744391977     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021495     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Barnston, A. G., and R. E. Livezey (1987), Classification, seasonality and persistence of low-frequency atmospheric circulation patterns, Mon. Weather Rev., 82, 1083-1126.
2. Chiang, J. C., and Y. Kushnir (2000), Interdecadal changes in eastern Pacific ITCZ variability and its influence on the Atlantic ITCZ, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 3687-3690.
3. Derome, J., G. Brunet, A. Plante, N. Gagnon, G. Boer, F. Zwiers, S. Lambert, J. Sheng, and H. Ritchie (2001), Seasonal predictions based on two dynamical models, Atmos. Ocean, 39, 485-501.
4. Flato, G. M., and G. J. Boer (2001), Warming asymmetry in climate change simulations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 195-198.
5. Franzke, C., S. Lee, and S. B. Feldstein (2004), Is the North Atlantic Oscillation a breaking wave?, J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 145-160.
6. Greatbatch, R. J., H. Lin, J. Lu, K. A. Peterson, and J. Derome (2003), Tropical/extratropical forcing of the AO/NAO: A corrigendum, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(14), 1738, doi:10.1029/2003GL017406.
7. Hoerling, M. P., A. Kumar, and M. Zhong (1997), El Niño, La Niña, and the nonlinearity of their teleconnections, J. Clim., 10, 1769-1786.
8. Hoerling, M. P., J. W. Hurrell, and T. Xu (2001), Tropical origins for recent North Atlantic climate change, Science, 292, 90-92.
9. Hurrell, J. W. (1995), Decadal trends in the North Atlantic Oscillation: Regional temperatures and precipitation, Science, 269, 676-679.
10. Hurrell, J. W. (1996), Influence of variations in extratropical wintertime teleconnections on Northern Hemisphere temperature, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 665-668.
11. Kalnay, E., et al. (1996), The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 77, 437-471.
12. Lin, H., and J. Derome (2004), Nonlinearity of the extratropical response to tropical forcing, J. Clim., 17, 2597-2608.
13. Livezey, R. E., A. Leetmaa, M. Mautani, H. Rui, N. Ji, and A. Kumar (1997), Teleconnective response of the Pacific-North American region atmosphere to large central equatorial Pacific SST anomalies, Clim. Change, 10, 1787-1820.
14. Parker, D. E., M. Jackson, and E. B. Horton (1995), The 1961-1990 GISST2.2 sea surface temperature and sea-ice climatology, Tech. Note 63, Hadley Cent. U.K. Meteorol. Organ., Bracknell, U. K.
15. Pozo-Vazquez, D., M. J. Esteban-Parra, F. S. Rodrigo, and Y. Castro-Diez (2001), The association between ENSO and winter atmospheric circulation and temperature in the North Atlantic region, J. Clim., 14, 3408-3420.
16. Trenberth, K. E., G. W. Branstator, D. Karoly, A. Kumar, N. Lau, and C. Ropelewski (1998), Progress during TOGA in understanding and modeling global teleconnections associated with tropical sea surface temperature, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 12,324-14,291.
17. Wallace, J. M., and D. S. Guztler (1981), Teleconnections in the geopotential height field during the Northern Hemisphere winter, Mon. Weather Rev., 109, 784-812.
18. Wu, A., and W. W. Hsieh (2004), The nonlinear Northern Hemisphere atmospheric response to ENSO, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L02203, doi:10.1029/2003GL018885.
19. Xie, P., and P. A. Arkin (1997), Global precipitation: A 17-year monthly analysis based on gauge observations, satellite estimates and numerical model outputs, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 78, 2539-2558.
20. Zhang, Y., K. R. Sperber, and J. S. Boyle (1997), Climatology and interannual variation of the East Asian winter monsoon: Results from the 1979-95 NCEP/NCAR reanalysis, Mon. Weather Rev., 125, 2605-2619.