Large-scale control on the Patagonian climate

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 215-230

  Garreaud, René ^a   Lopez, P ^a   Minvielle, M ^a   Rojas, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL CYCLE; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; DOWNSLOPE; ENVIRONMENTAL RECORDS; HIGH LATITUDES; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; LOCAL CLIMATE; MAIN MODE; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; NEAR SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; PATAGONIA; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; REANALYSIS; REMOTE REGIONS; SOUTH AMERICA; VARYING TEMPERATURE; WIND ANOMALIES; ZONAL FLOWS; ZONAL WIND;

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CLIMATE CONTROL;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; ZONAL WIND;

PATAGONIA;

EID: 84867143429     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00001.1     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Aniya, M., 2007: Glacier variations of Hielo Patagó nico Norte, Chile, for 1944/45-2004/05. Bull. Glaciol. Res., 24, 59-70.
2. Aravena, J. C., and B. H. Luckman, 2009: Spatio-temporal rainfall patterns in southern South America. Int. J. Climatol., 29, 2106- 2120.
3. Barrett, B. S., D. B. Krieger, and C. P. Barlow, 2011: Multiday circulation and precipitation climatology during winter rain events of differing intensities in central Chile. J. Hydrometeor., 12, 1071-1085.
4. Blisniuk, P. M., L. A. Stern, C. P. Chamberlain, B. Idleman, and P. K. Zeitler, 2005: Climatic and ecologic changes during Miocene surface uplift in the Southern Patagonian Andes. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 230, 125-142.
5. Bromwich, D. H., and R. L. Fogt, 2004: Strong trends in the skill of the ERA-40 and NCEP-NCAR reanalyses in the high and midlatitudes of the Southern Hemisphere, 1958-2001. J. Climate, 17, 4603-4619.
6. Carrasco, J., G. Casassa, and A. Rivera, 2002: Meteorological and climatological aspects of the Southern Patagonia Ice Cap. The Patagonian Icefields: A Unique Natural Laboratory for Environmental and Climate Change Studies, G. Casassa, F. V. Sepú lveda, and R. M. Sinclair, Eds., Kluwer Academic, 29-41.
7. DGA, 1987: National water balance. Direccion General de Aguas Tech. Rep., 60 pp.
8. Escobar, F., F. Vidal, and C. Garin, 1992: Water balance in the Patagonia Icefield. Glaciological Researches in Patagonia, 1990, R. Naruse, Ed., Japanese Society of Snow and Ice, 109- 119.
9. Falvey, M., and R. D. Garreaud, 2007: Wintertime precipitation episodes in central Chile: Associated meteorological conditions and orographic influences. J. Hydrometeor., 8, 171- 193.
10. Fletcher, M. S., and P. I. Moreno, 2012: Have the Southern Westerlies changed in a zonally symmetric manner over the last 14,000 years? A hemisphere-wide take on a controversial problem. Quat. Int., 253, 32-46.
11. Fuenzalida, H., P. Aceituno, M. Falvey, R. Garreaud, M. Rojas, and R. Sanchez, 2007: Estudio de variabilidad climá tica en Chile para el siglo XXI (Study on climate variability for Chile during the 21st century). National Environmental Committee Tech. Rep. [Available online at http://www.dgf.uchile.cl/PRECIS.]
12. Garreaud, R. D., 2007: Precipitation and circulation covariability in the extratropics. J. Climate, 20, 4789-4797.
13. Garreaud, R. D., and M. Falvey, 2009: The coastal winds off western subtropical South America in future climate scenarios. Int. J. Climatol., 29, 543-554, doi:10.1002/joc.1716.
14. Garreaud, R. D., M. Vuille, R. Compagnucci, and J. Marengo, 2009: Presentday South American climate. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 281, 180-195.
15. Gillett, N. P., and D. W. J. Thompson, 2003: Simulation of recent Southern Hemisphere climate change. Science, 302, 273-275.
16. Gillett, N. P., T. Kell, and P. Jones, 2006: Regional climate impacts of the southern annular mode. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L23704, doi:10.1029/2006GL027721.
17. Gong, D., and S. Wang, 1999: Definition of Antarctic oscillation index. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 459-462.
18. Holmlund, P., and H. Fuenzalida, 1995: Anomalous glacier responses to 20th century climatic changes in the Darwin Cordillera, southern Chile. J. Glaciol., 41, 465-473.
19. Jones, R. G., M. Noguer, D. C. Hassell, D. Hudson, S. S. Wilson, G. J. Jenkins, and J. F. B. Mitchell, 2004: Generating high resolution climate change scenarios using PRECIS. Met. Office Hadley Center, 40 pp.
20. Kalnay, E., and Coauthors, 1996: The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 437-471.
21. Lamy, F., R. Kilian, H. W. Arz, J. P. Francois, J. Kaiser, M. Prange, and T. Steinke, 2010: Holocene changes in the position and intensity of the southern westerly wind belt. Nat. Geosci., 3, 695-699, doi:10.1038/ngeo959.
22. Lara, A., R. Villalba, A. Wolodarsky-Franke, J. C. Aravena, B. H. Luckman, and E. Cuq, 2005: Spatial and temporal variation in Nothofagus pumilio growth at tree line along its latitudinal range (35°409-55°S) in the Chilean Andes. J. Biogeogr., 32, 879-893.
23. Lopez, P., K. Najib, J. Carrasco, and G. Casassa, 2008: Analysis of meteorological data fromNCEP/NCARreanalysis, radiosonde data and surface stations, and its relation with glacier behaviour in Patagonia during the last 50 years. Proc. FourthEGU Alexander von Humboldt Int. Conf., Santiago, Chile, EGU, 73.
24. Lopez, P., P. Chevallier, V. Favier, B. Pouyaud, F. Ordenes, and J. Oerlemans, 2010: A regional view of fluctuations in glacier length in southern South America. Global Planet. Change, 71, 85-108.
25. Marengo, J., R. Jones, L. M. Alves, and M. Valverde, 2009: Future change of temperature and precipitation extremes in South America as derived from the PRECIS regional climate modeling system. Int. J. Climatol., 29, 2241-2255.
26. Marshall, G. J., 2003: Trends in the southern annular mode from observations and reanalyses. J. Climate, 16, 4134-4143.
27. Matthewman, J., and G. Magnusdottir, 2012: Clarifying ambiguity in intraseasonal Southern Hemisphere climate modes during austral winter. J. Geophys. Res., 117, D03105, doi:10.1029/ 2011JD016707.
28. Miller, A., 1976: The climate of Chile. Climates of Central and South America, W. Schwerdtgefer, Ed., Vol. 12, World Survey of Climatology, Elsevier, 113-145.
29. Möller, M., C. Schneider, and R. Kilian, 2007: Glacier change and climate forcing in recent decades at Gran Campo Nevado, southernmost Patagonia. Ann. Glaciol., 46, 136-144.
30. Moreno, P. I., 2004:Millennial-scale climate variability in northwest Patagonia over the last 15 000 yr. J. Quat. Sci., 19, 35-47.
31. North, G. R., T. L. Bell, R. F. Cahalan, and F. J. Moeng, 1982: Sampling errors in the estimation of empirical orthogonal functions. Mon. Wea. Rev., 110, 699-706.
32. Paruelo, J. M., A. Beltran, E. Jobbagy, O. E. Sala, and R. A. Golluscio, 1998: The climate of Patagonia: General patterns and controls on biotic processes. Ecol. Aust., 8, 85-101.
33. Peterson, T. C., and R. S. Vose, 1997: An overview of the Global Historical Climatology Network Temperature Database. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78, 2837-2849.
34. Prohaska, F., 1976:The climate ofArgentina, Paraguay, andUruguay. Climates of Central and South America, W. Schwerdtgefer, Ed., Vol. 12, World Survey of Climatology, Elsevier, 57-69.
35. Quintana, J., and P. Aceituno, 2012: Changes in the rainfall regime along the extratropical west coast of South America (Chile). Atmósfera, 25, 1-22.
36. Rasmussen, L., H. Conway, and C. Raymond, 2007: Influence of upper air conditions on the Patagonia icefields. Global Planet. Change, 59, 203-216.
37. Rayner, N., D. Parker, E. Horton, C. Folland, L. Alexander, D. Rowell, E. Kent, and A. Kaplan, 2003: Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century. J. Geophys. Res., 108, 4407, doi:10.1029/2002JD002670.
38. Rignot, E., A. Rivera, and G. Casassa, 2003: Contribution of the Patagonia icefields of South America to sea level rise. Science, 302, 434-437.
39. Roe, G. H., 2005: Orographic precipitation. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 33, 645-671.
40. Rojas, M., and Coauthors, 2009: The last glacial maximum in the Southern Hemisphere in PMIP2 simulations. Climate Dyn., 32, 525-548, doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0421-7.
41. Rosenblüth, B., H. Fuenzalida, and P. Aceituno, 1997: Recent temperature variations in southern South America. Int. J. Climatol., 17, 67-85.
42. Saha, S., and Coauthors, 2010: The NCEP climate forecast system reanalysis. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 91, 1015-1057.
43. Schneider, C., and D. Gies, 2004: Effects of El Niño-Southern Oscillation on southernmost South America precipitation at 538S revealed from NCEP-NCAR reanalyses and weather station data. Int. J. Climatol., 24, 1057-1076.
44. Seluchi, M. E., F. A. Norte, P. Satyamurty, and S. C. Chou, 2003: Analysis of three situations of the foehn effect over the Andes (zonda wind) using the ETA-CPTEC regional model. Wea. Forecasting, 18, 481-501.
45. Silvestri, G. E., and C. S. Vera, 2003: Antarctic Oscillation signal on precipitation anomalies over southeastern South America. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 2115, doi:10.1029/2003GL018277.
46. Smith, R. B., and J. P. Evans, 2007: Orographic precipitation and water vapor fractionation over the southern Andes. J. Hydrometeor., 8, 3-19.
47. Thompson,D.W. J., and J. M. Wallace, 2000: Annular modes in the extratropical circulation. Part I: Month-to-month variability. J. Climate, 13, 1000-1016.
48. Thompson,D.W. J., and S. Solomon, 2002: Interpretation of recent Southern Hemisphere climate change. Science, 296, 895-899.
49. Trenberth, K. E., 1981: Interannual variability of the Southern Hemisphere 500-mb flow: Regional characteristics. Mon. Wea. Rev., 109, 127-136.
50. Uppala, S. M., and Coauthors, 2005: The ERA-40 Re-Analysis. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 131, 2961-3012.
51. Villalba, R., M. Grosjeanb, and T. Kiefer, 2009: Long-term multiproxy climate reconstructions and dynamics in South America (LOTRED-SA): State of the art and perspectives. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 281, 175-179.