The antarctic atmospheric energy budget. part 1: Climatology and intraseasonal-to-interannual variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 6406-6418

  Previdi, Michael ^a   Smith, Karen L ^a   Polvani, Lorenzo M ^a,b  

^a Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^b Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC ENERGY; CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; RADIATIVE FLUXES; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SURFACE CLIMATE; SURFACE ENERGY FLUXES; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY;

BUDGET CONTROL;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATOLOGY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENERGY BUDGET; ENERGY FLUX; POLAR METEOROLOGY; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE ENERGY; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 84883205427     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00640.1     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Baldwin, M. P., and T. J. Dunkerton, 1999: Downward propagation of the Arctic Oscillation from the stratosphere to the troposphere. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 30 937-30 946.
2. Baldwin, M. P., and T. J. Dunkerton, 2001: Stratospheric harbingers of anomalous weather regimes. Science, 244, 581-584.
3. Berrisford, P., P. Ka° llberg, S. Kobayashi, D. Dee, S. Uppala, A. J. Simmons, P. Poli, and H. Sato, 2011: Atmospheric conservation properties in ERA-Interim. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 137, 1381-1399.
4. Bracegirdle, T. J., and G. J. Marshall, 2012: The reliability of Antarctic tropospheric pressure and temperature in the latest global reanalyses. J. Climate, 25, 7138-7146.
5. Bromwich , D. H., A. J. Monaghan, and Z. Guo, 2004: Modeling the ENSO modulation of Antarctic climate in the late 1990s with the Polar MM5. J. Climate, 17, 109-132.
6. Bromwich , D. H., J. P. Nicolas, and A. J. Monaghan, 2011: An assessment of precipitation changes over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean since 1989 in contemporary global reanalyses. J. Climate, 24, 4189-4209.
7. Calvo Fernández, N., R. R. García, R. García Herrera, D. Gallego Puyol, L. Gimeno Presa, E. Hernández Martín, and P. Ribera Rodríguez, 2004: Analysis of the ENSO signal in tropospheric and stratospheric temperatures observed by MSU, 1979-2000. J. Climate, 17, 3934-3946.
8. Comiso, J. C., and F. Nishio, 2008: Trends in the sea ice cover using enhanced and compatible AMSR-E, SSM/I, and SMMR data. J. Geophys. Res., 113, C02S07, doi:10.1029/2007JC004257.
9. Connolley,W. M., 1996: The Antarctic temperature inversion. Int. J. Climatol., 16, 1333-1342.
10. Cullather, R. I., and M. G. Bosilovich, 2012: The energy budget of the polar atmosphere in MERRA. J. Climate, 25, 5-24.
11. Dee, D. P., and Coauthors, 2011: The ERA-Interim reanalysis: Configuration and performance of the data assimilation system. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 137, 553-597.
12. Domack, E., and Coauthors, 2005: Stability of the Larsen B ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene epoch. Nature, 436, 681-685.
13. Genthon, C., and G. Krinner, 1998: Convergence and disposal of energy and moisture on the Antarctic polar cap fromECMWF reanalyses and forecasts. J. Climate, 11, 1703-1716.
14. Kalnay, E., and Coauthors, 1996: The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 437-471.
15. Kaplan, A., M. Cane, Y. Kushnir, A. Clement, M. Blumenthal, and B. Rajagopalan, 1998: Analyses of global sea surface temperature 1856-1991. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 18 567-18 589.
16. Le Quéré, C., and Coauthors, 2007: Saturation of the Southern Ocean CO2 sink due to recent climate change. Science, 316, 1735-1738.
17. Liu, J., J. A. Curry, and D. G. Martinson, 2004: Interpretation of recent Antarctic sea ice variability. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L02205, doi:10.1029/2003GL018732.
18. Loeb, N. G., B. A. Wielicki, D. R. Doelling, G. L. Smith, D. F. Keyes, S. Kato, N. Manalo-Smith, and T. Wong, 2009: Toward optimal closure of the earth's top-of-atmosphere radiation budget. J. Climate, 22, 748-766.
19. Marshall, G. J., 2003: Trends in the southern annular mode from observations and reanalyses. J. Climate, 16, 4134-4143.
20. Mayewski, P. A., and Coauthors, 2009: State of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate system. Rev. Geophys., 47, RG1003, doi:10.1029/2007RG000231.
21. Nakamura, N., and A. H. Oort, 1988: Atmospheric heat budgets of the polar regions. J. Geophys. Res., 93, 9510-9524.
22. Okada, I., and T. Yamanouchi, 2002: Seasonal change of the atmospheric heat budget over the Southern Ocean from ECMWF and ERBE data. J. Climate, 15, 2527-2536.
23. Orsolini, Y. J., C. E. Randall, G. L. Manney, and D. R. Allen, 2005: An observational study of the final breakdown of the Southern Hemisphere stratospheric vortex in 2002. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 735-747.
24. Porter, D. F., J. J. Cassano, M. C. Serreze, and D. N. Kindig, 2010: New estimates of the large-scale Arctic atmospheric energy budget. J. Geophys. Res., 115, D08108, doi:10.1029/2009JD012653.
25. Purkey, S. G., and G. C. Johnson, 2012: Global contraction of Antarctic Bottom Water between the 1980s and 2000s. J. Climate, 25, 5830-5844.
26. Rignot, E., 2011: Is Antarctica melting? Wiley Interdiscip. Rev. Climate Change, 2, 324-331.
27. Smith, K. L., M. Previdi, and L. M. Polvani, 2013: The Antarctic atmospheric energy budget. Part II: The effect of ozone depletion and its projected recovery. J. Climate, in press.
28. Smith, S. R., and C. R. Stearns, 1993: Antarctic pressure and temperature anomalies surrounding the minimum in the Southern Oscillation index. J. Geophys. Res., 98, 13 071-13 083.
29. Steig, E. J., D. P. Schneider, S. D. Rutherford, M. E. Mann, J. C. Comiso, and D. T. Shindell, 2009: Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year. Nature, 457, 459-462.
30. Thomas, E. R., G. J. Marshall, and J. R. McConnell, 2008: A doubling in snow accumulation in the western Antarctic Peninsula since 1850. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L01706, doi:10.1029/2007GL032529.
31. 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.
32. Thompson, D. W. J., S. Lee, and M. P. Baldwin, 2003: Atmospheric processes governing the Northern Hemisphere annular mode/North Atlantic Oscillation. The North Atlantic Oscillation: Climatic Significance and Environmental Impact, Geophys. Monogr., Vol. 134, Amer. Geophys. Union, 81-112.
33. Thompson, D.W. J., M. P. Baldwin, and S. Solomon, 2005: Stratosphere- troposphere coupling in the Southern Hemisphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 708-715.
34. Thompson, D.W. J., S. Solomon, P. J. Kushner, M. H. England, K. M. Grise, and D. J. Karoly, 2011: Signatures of the Antarctic ozone hole in Southern Hemisphere surface climate change. Nat. Geosci., 4, 741-749.
35. Trenberth, K. E., 1991: Climate diagnostics from global analyses: Conservation of mass in ECMWF analyses. J. Climate, 4, 707- 722.
36. Trenberth, K. E., 1997: Using atmospheric budgets as a constraint on surface fluxes. J. Climate, 10, 2796-2809.
37. Trenberth, K. E., and J. T. Fasullo, 2010: Simulation of present-day and twentyfirst- century energy budgets of the southern oceans. J. Climate, 23, 440-454.
38. Trenberth, K. E., and Coauthors, 2007: Observations: Surface and atmospheric climate change. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science
39. Trenberth, K. E., J. T. Fasullo, and J. Kiehl, 2009: Earth's global energy budget. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90, 311-323.
40. Turner, J., 2004: The El Nĩno-Southern Oscillation and Antarctica. Int. J. Climatol., 24, 1-31.
41. Turner, J., and Coauthors, 2004: The SCAR READER project: Toward a high-quality database of mean Antarctic meteorological observations. J. Climate, 17, 2890-2898.
42. Turner, J., and Coauthors, 2005: Antarctic climate change during the last 50 years. Int. J. Climatol., 25, 279-294.
43. Turner, J., and Coauthors, 2009: Non-annular atmospheric circulation change induced by stratospheric ozone depletion and its role in the recent increase of Antarctic sea ice extent. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L08502, doi:10.1029/2009GL037524.
44. van de Berg, W. J., M. R. van den Broeke, and E. van Meijgaard, 2007: Heat budget of the East Antarctic lower atmosphere derived from a regional atmospheric climate model. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D23101, doi:10.1029/2007JD008613.
45. Wielicki, B. A., B. R. Barkstrom, E. F. Harrison, R. B. Lee, G. L. Smith, and J. E. Cooper, 1996: Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES): An Earth Observing System experiment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 853-868.
46. Zwally, H. J., J. C. Comiso, C. L. Parkinson, D. J. Cavalieri, and P. Gloersen, 2002: Variability of Antarctic sea ice 1979-1998. J. Geophys. Res., 107, 3041, doi:10.1029/2000JC000733.