An energetics study of wintertime Northern Hemisphere storm tracks under 4 × CO2 conditions in two ocean-atmosphere coupled models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 819-839

  Laîné, Alexandre ^a   Kageyama, Masa ^a   Salas Mélia, David ^b   Ramstein, Gilles ^a   Planton, Serge ^b   Denvil, Sébastien ^c   Tyteca, Sophie ^b  

^a DIF   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; CONVERSION PROCESS; DIABATIC PROCESS; EDDY KINETIC ENERGIES; ENERGY EQUATIONS; ENERGY SOURCES; GEOPOTENTIAL; GLOBAL COUPLED MODELS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; LATENT HEAT RELEASE; MEAN FLOWS; MEAN TEMPERATURES; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE COUPLED MODELS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; OCEANIC BASINS; PRE-INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS; STORM TRACKS; SYNOPTIC VARIABILITIES; WARMER AIRS;

AMPLIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERICS; HEATING; LATENT HEAT; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RIVERS; STORMS; WATER VAPOR;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE FORCING; DIABATIC PROCESS; ENERGETICS; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; STORM TRACK; WINTER;

EID: 64049086455     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2217.1     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Baehr, C., B. Pouponneau, F. Ayrault, and A. Joly, 1999: Dynamical characterization of the FASTEX cyclogenesis cases. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 125, 3469-3494.
2. Bengtsson, L., K. I. Hodges, and E. Roeckner, 2006: Storm tracks and climate change. J. Climate, 19, 3518-3543.
3. Black, R. X., 1998: The maintenance of extratropical intraseasonal transient eddy activity in the GEOS-1 assimilated dataset. J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 3159-3175.
4. Black, R. X., and R. M. Dole, 2000: Storm tracks and barotropic deformation in climate models. J. Climate, 13, 2712-2728.
5. Blackmon, M. L., 1976: A climatological spectral study of the 500 mb geopotential height of the Northern Hemisphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 33, 1607-1623.
6. Carlson, T. N., 1980: Airflow through midlatitude cyclones and the comma cloud pattern. Mon. Wea. Rev., 108, 1498-1509.
7. Chang, E. K. M., and I. Orlanski, 1993: On the dynamics of a storm track. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 999-1015.
8. Chang, E. K. M., and P. Zurita-Gotor, 2007: Simulating the seasonal cycle of the Northern Hemisphere storm tracks using idealized nonlinear storm-track models. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 2309-2331.
9. Chang, E. K. M., S. Lee, and K. L. Swanson, 2002: Storm track dynamics. J. Climate, 15, 2163-2183.
10. Fyfe, J. C., 2003: Extratropical Southern Hemisphere cyclones: Harbingers of climate change? J. Climate, 16, 2802-2805.
11. Geng, Q. Z., and M. Sugi, 2003: Possible change of extratropical cyclone activity due to enhanced greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosols - Study with a high-resolution AGCM. J. Climate, 16, 2262-2274.
12. Hall, N. M. J., B. J. Hoskins, P. Valdes, and C. A. Senior, 1994: Storm track in a high-resolution GCM with doubled carbon dioxide. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 120, 1209-1230.
13. Hoskins, B. J., and F. P. Bretherton, 1972: Atmospheric frontogenesis models: Mathematical formulation and solution. J. Atmos. Sci., 29, 11-37.
14. Hoskins, B. J., and P. J. Valdes, 1990: On the existence of storm tracks. J. Atmos. Sci., 47, 1854-1864.
15. Hoskins, B. J., and K. I. Hodges, 2002: New perspectives on the Northern Hemisphere winter storm tracks. J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 1041-1061.
16. Hoskins, B. J., H. H. Hsu, I. N. James, M. Masutani, P. D. Sardeshmukh, and G. H. White, 1989: Diagnostics of the global atmospheric circulation based on ECMWF analyses 1979-1989. WRCP Tech. Rep. 27, 217 pp.
17. Jung, T., S. K. Gulev, I. Rudeva, and V. Soloviov, 2006: Sensitivity of extratropical cyclone characteristics to horizontal resolution in the ECMWF model. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 132, 1839-1857.
18. Kageyama, M., P. J. Valdes, G. Ramstein, C. Hewitt, and U. Wyputta, 1999: Northern Hemisphere storm tracks in present day and Last Glacial Maximum climate simulations: A comparison of the European PMIP models. J. Climate, 12, 742-760.
19. Lackmann, G. M., D. Keyser, and L. E. Bosart, 1999: Energetics of an intensifying jet streak during the Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic (ERICA). Mon. Wea. Rev., 127, 2777-2795.
20. Lambert, S., and J. C. Fyfe, 2006: Changes in winter cyclone frequencies and strengths simulated in enhanced greenhouse gas experiments: Results from the models participating in the IPCC diagnostic exercise. Climate Dyn., 26, 713-728.
21. le de Mode' lisation 26, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Jussieu, France. [Available online at http://dods.ipsl.jussieu.fr/omamce/IPSLCM4/DocIPSLCM4/HTML/.]
22. Masson-Delmotte, V., and Coauthors, 2005: Past and future polar amplification of climate change: Climate model intercomparisons and ice-core constraints. Climate Dyn., 26, 513-529, doi:10.1007/s00382-005-0081-9.
23. McCabe, G. J., M. P. Clark, and M. C. Serreze, 2001: Trends in Northern Hemisphere surface cyclone frequency and intensity. J. Climate, 14, 2763-2768.
24. Moritz, R. E., C. M. Bitz, and E. J. Steig, 2002: Dynamics of recent climate change in the Arctic. Science, 297, 1497-1502.
25. Orlanski, I., 2003: Bifurcation in eddy life cycles: Implications for storm track variability. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 993-1023.
26. Orlanski, I., and J. Katzfey, 1991: The life cycle of a cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere. Part I: Eddy energy budget. J. Atmos. Sci., 48, 1972-1998.
27. Orlanski, I., and J. Sheldon, 1995: Stages in the energetics of baroclinic systems. Tellus, 47A, 605-628.
28. Peixoto, J., and A. H. Oort, 1992: Physics of Climate. American Institute of Physics, 520 pp.
29. Rivière, G., and A. Joly, 2006a: Role of the low-frequency deformation field on the explosive growth of extratropical cyclones at the jet exit. Part I: Barotropic critical region. J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 1965-1981.
30. Rivière, G., and A. Joly, 2006b: Role of the low-frequency deformation field on the explosive growth of extratropical cyclones at the jet exit. Part II: Baroclinic critical region. J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 1982-1995.
31. Rivière, G., and I. Orlanski, 2007: Characteristics of the Atlantic stormtrack eddy activity and its relation with the North Atlantic Oscillation. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 241-266.
32. Salas-Mélia, D., and Coauthors, 2005: Description and validation of the CNRM-CM3 global coupled model. CNRM Working Note 103.
33. Solomon, S., and Coeditors, 2007: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Cambridge University Press, 996 pp.
34. Sutton, R. T., B. Dong, and J. M. Gregory, 2007: Land/sea warming ratio in response to climate change: IPCC AR4 model results and comparison with observations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L02701, doi:10.1029/2006GL028164.
35. Wallace, J. M., G.-H. Lim, and M. L. Blackmon, 1988: Relationship between cyclone tracks, anticyclone tracks and baroclinic waveguides. J. Atmos. Sci., 45, 439-463.
36. Yin, J. H., 2005: A consistent poleward shift of the storm tracks in simulations of 21st century climate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L18701, doi:10.1029/2005GL023684.