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dc.contributor.authorGong, Daoyieng
dc.contributor.authorDrange, Helgeeng
dc.date.accessioned2005-08-24T08:47:42Z
dc.date.available2005-08-24T08:47:42Z
dc.date.issued2005-01-20eng
dc.PublishedAdvances in atmospheric sciences 22(3): 313-327
dc.identifier.issn0256-1530
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1956/771
dc.description.abstractIn the present study, the authors investigated the relationship between the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and the high-frequency variability of daily sea level pressures in the Northern Hemisphere in winter (November through March), using NCEP/NCAR reanalysis datasets for the time period of 1948/49-2000/01. High-frequency signals are defined as those with timescales shorter than three weeks and measured in terms of variance, for each winter for each grid. The correlations between monthly mean AO index and high-frequency variance are conducted. A predominant feature is that several regional centers with high correlation show up in the middle to high latitudes. Significant areas include mid- to high-latitude Asia centered at Siberia, northern Europe and the middle-latitude North Atlantic east of northern Africa. Their strong correlations can also be confirmed by the singular value decomposition analysis of covariance between mean SLP and high-frequency variance. This indicates that the relationship of AO with daily Sea Level Pressure (SLP) is confined to some specific regions in association with the inherent atmospheric dynamics. In middle-latitude Asia, there is a significant (at the 95% level) trend of variance of –2.26% (10 yr)−1. Another region that displays a strong trend is the northwestern Pacific with a significant rate of change of 0.80% (10 yr)−1. If the winter of 1948/49, an apparent outlier, is excluded, a steady linear trend of +1.51% (10 yr)−1 shows up in northern Europe. The variance probability density functions (PDFs) are found to change in association with different AO phases. The changes corresponding to high and low AO phases, however, are asymmetric in these regions. Some regions such as northern Europe display much stronger changes in high AO years, whereas some other regions such as Siberia show a stronger connection to low AO conditions. These features are supported by ECMWF reanalysis data. However, the dynamical mechanisms involved in the AO-high frequency SLP variance connection have not been well understood, and this needs further study.en_US
dc.format.extent3638745 byteseng
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfeng
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherScience Presseng
dc.subjectArctic Oscillationeng
dc.subjectNorthern Hemisphereeng
dc.subjectSea level pressure (SLP)eng
dc.subjectSynoptic varianceeng
dc.titleA preliminary study on the relationship between Arctic Oscillation and daily SLP variance in the Northern hemisphere during wintertimeeng
dc.typeJournal articleeng
dc.typePeer reviewedeng
dc.description.versionpublishedVersion
dc.source.journalAdvances in Atmospheric Sciences
dc.source.4022
dc.source.143
dc.source.pagenumber313-327


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