Trends in the Southern Hemisphere polar vortex in NCEP and ECMWF reanalyses

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Renwick, James A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; SATELLITES; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW;

GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHTS; POLAR VORTEX;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

GEOPOTENTIAL; POLAR VORTEX; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 3042739514     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019302     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Black, R. X. (2002), Stratospheric forcing of surface climate in the Arctic Oscillation, J. Clim., 15(3), 268-277.
2. Connolley, W. M., and S. A. Harangozo (2001), A comparison of five numerical weather prediction analysis climatologies in southern high latitudes, J. Clim., 14(1), 30-44.
3. Draper, N. R., and H. Smith (1981), Applied Regression Analysis, Second Edition, 709 pp., Wiley, New York.
4. Gillett, N. P., and D. W. J. Thompson (2003), Simulation of recent Southern Hemisphere climate change, Science, 302, 273-275.
5. Hines, K. M., D. H. Bromwich, and G. J. Marshall (2000), Artificial surface pressure trends in the NCEP-NCAR Reanalysis over the Southern Ocean and Antarctica, J. Clim., 13(22), 3940-3952.
6. Kalnay, E., et al. (1996), The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 77(3), 437-471.
7. Kistler, R., et al. (2001), The NCEP-NCAR 50-year reanalysis: Monthly means CD-ROM and documentation, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 82(2), 247-268.
8. Marshall, G. J. (2002), Trends in Antarctic geopotential height and temperature: A comparison between radiosonde and NCEP-NCAR reanalysis data, J. Clim., 15(6), 659-674.
9. Marshall, G. J. (2003), Trends in the southern annular mode from observations and reanalyses, J. Clim., 16(24), 4134-4143.
10. Randel, W., M.-L. Chanin, and C. Michaut (2002), SPARC intercomparison of middle atmosphere climatologies, SPARC Report 3, WCRP 116, WMO/TD No. 1142, 70 pp.
11. Renwick, J. A., and M. J. Revell (1999), Blocking over the South Pacific and Rossby Wave Propagation, Mon. Wea. Rev., 127(10), 2233-2247.
12. Thompson, D. W. J., and S. Solomon (2002), Interpretation of recent Southern Hemisphere climate change, Science, 296(5569), 895-899.
13. Thompson, D. W. J., and J. M. Wallace (2000), Annular modes in the extratropical circulation. Part II: Trends, J. Clim., 13(5), 1018-1036.
14. Trenberth, K. E., and D. P. Stepaniak (2002), A pathological problem with NCEP reanalyses in the stratosphere, J. Clim., 15(6), 690-695.