Tropospheric Rossby wave breaking and the SAM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2134-2146

  Wang, Yi Hui ^a   Magnusdottir, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ENSO; Rossby waves; Southern Hemisphere; Troposphere

Indexed keywords

AUSTRAL SUMMERS; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; CYCLONIC REGIONS; ENSO; HIGH LATITUDES; INDIAN OCEAN; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS; ROSSBY WAVE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TIME LAG; TIME-SCALES; ZONAL ASYMMETRY; ZONAL WIND;

CLIMATOLOGY; LINEAR REGRESSION; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TIME SERIES;

TROPOSPHERE;

ANTICYCLONE; CLIMATOLOGY; CYCLONE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; JET FLOW; ROSSBY WAVE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TIMESCALE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE BREAKING; ZONAL WIND;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

EID: 79958089997     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI4009.1     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Abatzoglou, J. T., and G. Magnusdottir, 2006 Planetary wave breaking and nonlinear reflection: Seasonal cycle and interannual variability. J. Climate, 19, 139-6152.
2. Akaike, H., 1974 Anew look at the statistical model identification. IEEE. Trans. Autom. Control, AC19, 716-723.
3. Arblaster, J. M., and G. A. Meehl, 2006 Contributions of external forcings to southern annular mode trends. J. Climate, 19, 2896-2905.
4. Austin, P. C., and J. V. Tu, 2004 Bootstrap methods for developing predictive models. Amer. Stat., 58, 131-137.
5. Benedict, J. J., S. Lee, and S. B. Feldstein, 2004 Synoptic view of the North Atlantic Oscillation. J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 121-144.
6. Berrisford, P., B. J. Hoskins, and E. Tyrlis, 2007 Blocking and Rossby wave breaking on the dynamical tropopause in the Southern Hemisphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 2881-2898.
7. Carvalho, L. M. V., C. Jones, and T. Ambrizzi, 2005 Opposite phases of the Antarctic Oscillation and relationships with intraseasonal to interannual activity in the tropics during the austral summer. J. Climate, 18, 702-718.
8. Chen, G., and I. M. Held, 2007 Phase speed spectra and the recent poleward shift of Southern Hemisphere surface westerlies. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L21805, doi:10.1029/2007GL031200.
9. Chen, G, J. Lu, and D. M. W. Frierson, 2008 Phase speed spectra and the latitude of surface westerlies: Interannual variability and global warming trend. J. Climate, 21, 5942-5959.
10. Codron, F., 2005 Relation between annular modes and the mean state: Southern Hemisphere summer. J. Climate, 18, 320-330.
11. Feldstein, S. B., 2000 The timescale, power spectra, and climate noise properties of teleconnection patterns. J. Climate, 13, 4430-4440.
12. Fogt, R. L., J.Perlwitz,A. J.Monaghan,D.H. Bromwich, J.M. Jones, and G. J. Marshall, 2009 Historical SAM variability. Part II: Twentieth-century variability and trends from reconstructions, observations, and the IPCC AR4 models. J. Climate, 22, 5346-5365.
13. Gong, T. T., S. B. Feldstein, and D. H. Luo, 2010 The impact of ENSO on wave breaking and southern annular mode events. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 2854-870.
14. Hitchman, M. H., and A. S. Huesmann, 2007 A seasonal climatology of Rossby wave breaking in the 320-2000-K layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 1922-940.
15. Hoskins, B. J., I. N. James, and G. H. White, 1983 The shape, propagation and mean-flow interaction of large-scale weather systems. J. Atmos. Sci., 40, 595-1612.
16. Kidson, J. W., and I. G. Watterson, 1999 The structure and predictability of the "high-latitude mode" in the CSIRO9 general circulation model. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 3859-3873.
17. Kushner, P. J., I. M. Held, and T. L. Delworth, 2001 Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation response to global warming. J. Climate, 14, 2238-249.
18. L'Heureux, M. L., and D. W. J. Thompson, 2006 Observed relationships between the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and the extratropical zonal-mean circulation. J. Climate, 19, 276-287.
19. Lorenz, D. J., andD. L.Hartmann, 2001 Eddy-zonal flow feedback in the Southern Hemisphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 3312-3327.
20. Lu, J., G. Chen, and D. M. W. Frierson, 2008 Response of the zonal mean atmospheric circulation to El Niño versus global warming. J. Climate, 21, 5835-851.
21. Magnusdottir, G., and P. H. Haynes, 1999 Reflection of planetary waves in three-dimensional tropospheric flows. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 652-670.
22. Marshall, G. J., 2003 Trends in the southern annular mode from observations and reanalyses. J. Climate, 16, 4134-4143.
23. Martius, O., C. Schwierz, and H. C. Davies, 2007 Breaking waves at the tropopause in the wintertime Northern Hemisphere: Climatological analyses of the orientation and the theoretical LC1/2 classification. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 2576-2592.
24. McIntyre, M. E., and T. N. Palmer, 1983 Breaking planetary waves in the stratosphere. Nature, 305, 593-600.
25. Nakamura, M., and R. A. Plumb, 1994 The effects of flow asymmetry on the direction of Rossby wave breaking. J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 2031-2045.
26. Ndarana, T., and D. W. Waugh, 2011 A climatology of Rossby wave breaking on the Southern Hemisphere tropopause. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 798-811.
27. Polvani, L. M., D.W.Waugh, G. J. P. Correa, and S.-W. Son, 2011 Stratospheric ozone depletion: The main driver of twentiethcentury atmospheric circulation changes in the Southern Hemisphere. J. Climate, 24, 795-812.
28. Riviè re, G., and I. Orlanski, 2007 Characteristics of the Atlantic storm-track eddy activity and its relation with the North Atlantic Oscillation. J. Atmos. ci., 64, 241-266.
29. Seager, R., N. Harnik, W. A. Robinson, Y. Kushnir, M. Ting, H. P. Huang, and J. Velez, 2005 Mechanisms of ENSO-forcing of hemispherically symmetric precipitation variability. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 131, 1501-1527.
30. Shapiro, M. A., H. Wernli, N. A. Bond, and R. Langland, 2001 The influence of the 1997-99 El Niño Southern Oscillation on extratropical baroclinic life cycles over the eastern North Pacific. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 127, 331-342.
31. Strong, C., and G. Magnusdottir, 2008 Tropospheric Rossby wave breaking and the NAO/NAM. J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 2861-2876.
32. Thompson, D. W. J., and S. Solomon, 2002 Interpretation of recent Southern Hemisphere climate change. Science, 296, 895-899.
33. Thorncroft, C. D., B. J. Hoskins, and M. F. Mcintyre, 1993 Two paradigms of baroclinic-wave life-cycle behaviour. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 119, 7-55.
34. Trenberth, K. E., 1991 Storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 48, 2159-2178.
35. Woollings, T., B. Hoskins, M. Blackburn, and P. Berrisford, 2008 A new Rossby wave-breaking interpretation of the North Atlantic Oscillation. J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 609-626.