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Twentieth century Sahel rainfall variability as simulated by the ARPEGE AGCM, and future changes 总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0
The ability of the ARPEGE AGCM in reproducing the twentieth century Sahelian drought when only forced by observed SST time
evolution has been characterized. Atmospheric internal variability is shown to have a strong contribution in driving the simulated
precipitation variability over the Sahel at decadal to multi-decadal time scales. The simulated drought is associated with
a southward shift of the continental rainbelt over central and eastern Sahel, associated with an inter-hemispheric SST mode
(the southern hemisphere oceans warming faster than the northern ones after 1970). The analysis of idealized experiments further
highlights the importance of the Pacific basin. The related increase of the tropospheric temperature (TT) over the tropics
is then suggested to dry the margin of convection zones over Africa, in agreement with the so-called “upped-ante” mechanism.
A simple metric is then defined to determine the ability of the CMIP3 coupled models in reproducing both the observed Sahel
drying and these mechanisms, in order to determine the reliability of the twenty-first century scenarios. Only one model reproduces
both the observed drought over the Sahel and consistent SST/TT relationships over the second half of the twentieth century.
This model predicts enhanced dry conditions over the Sahel at the end of the twenty-first century. However, as the mechanisms
highlighted here for the recent period are not stationary during the twenty-first century when considering the trends, similarities
between observed and simulated features of the West African monsoon for the twentieth century are a necessary but insufficient
condition for a trustworthy prediction of the future. 相似文献
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R. Glowienka-Hense 《Climate Dynamics》1999,15(4):269-275
The semi-annual oscillation (SAO) of the southern hemispheric sea-level pressure (SLP) in the global atmospheric GCM ECHAM
is examined. Five model runs initiated from different atmospheric states were conducted. Monthly values of sea surface temperature
(SST) and sea-ice distribution for the period 1950–1994 are specified boundary conditions for each run. The interdecadal change
of the SAO as forced by the changing boundary conditions is compared to the internal model variability, represented by the
five runs. The performance of the SAO in the ECHAM model is much improved compared to that of its precursor the T21 Hamburg
version of the ECMWF model in 1990. Analysis of observed SLP shows that between 1973–1979 the SAO had high amplitude whereas
from 1980–89 its amplitude was low. These changes go along with significant changes in SLP, i.e. the subpolar trough does
not expand as far equatorward from September to December as in the years before. The model does not show this reduction of
SAO strength in recent years. Multivariate Hotelling-T2 statistic and analysis of variance techniques (ANOVA) are used to determine the boundary forced part of variance of SLP and
SAO in the ECHAM simulations. The result is that only a small part of the SAO seems to be externally forced mainly from the
tropics.
Received: 24 July 1998 / Accepted: 10 November 1998 相似文献
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观测表明北极平流层自20世纪70年代末以来在冬季早期 (11～12月) 存在变暖的趋势。为了验证该趋势是否是由于海面温度 (SST) 升高造成的, 我们使用观测的全球SST强迫一个全球大气环流模式 (AGCM)。集合模拟的结果表明, 在SST强迫下, 北极平流层呈现统计显著的变暖趋势, 极地对流层也有相对较弱的变暖趋势, 但统计显著性较低。通过对模拟的位势高度进行经验正交函数 (EOF) 分析, 我们发现北半球位势高度第一模态 (EOF1) 的空间结构非常类似于北极涛动 (AO) 或北半球环状模 (NAM), 其平流层主分量时间序列在冬季早期呈现统计显著的负趋势。与负的AO趋势相对应的是, 对流层高纬度和平流层中高纬度波动增强, 说明极区变暖是由于波动增强产生的极区绝热加热增强造成的。另外, 模拟的结果还表明北极平流层不仅在冬季早期出现变暖的趋势, 在冬季晚期 (2～3月) 北极平流层低层也出现弱的变暖趋势。SST强迫导致北极平流层冬季变暖不利于异相臭氧化学反应的发生, 这对极地平流层臭氧恢复有着重要意义。 相似文献
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The correlation between Sahel rainfall and El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the northern summer has been varying for the last fifty years. We propose that the existence of periods of weak or strong relationship could result from an interaction with the global decadal scale sea surface temperature (SST) background. The main modes of SST variability have been extracted through a principal component analysis with Varimax rotation. The correlations between a July-September Sahel rainfall index and these SST modes have been computed on a 20-year running window between 1945 and 1993. The correlations with the interannual ENSO-SST mode are negative, not significant in the 1960s during the transition period from the wet climate phasis to the long-running drought in the Sahel, but then were significant since 1976. During the former period, the correlations between the Sahel rainfall index and the other SST modes (expressing mostly on quasi and multi-decadal scales) are the highest, in particular correlations with the tropical Atlantic “dipole”. Correlations between Sahel and Guinea Coast rainfall are also significantly negative. After 1970, the Sahel-Guinea Coast rainfall correlations are no longer significant, and the ENSO-SST mode becomes the only one significantly correlated with Sahel rainfall, especially due to the impact of warm events. The partial correlations between the ENSO-SST mode and the Sahel rainfall index, when the influence of the other SST modes are eliminated, are significant over all the 20-year running periods between 1945 and 1993, suggesting that this summer teleconnection could be modulated by the decadal scale SST background. The NCEP/NCAR reanalyses reproduce accurately the interannual variability of the atmospheric circulation after 1968. In particular a regional West African Monsoon Index (WAMI), combining wind speed anomalies at 925 and 200?hPa, is highly correlated with the July-September Sahel rainfall index. A warm ENSO event is associated both with an eastward mean sea level pressure gradient between the eastern tropical Pacific and the tropical Atlantic and with a northward pressure gradient along the western coast of West Africa. This pattern leads to enhanced trade winds over the tropical Atlantic and to weaker moisture advection over West Africa, consistent with a weaker monsoon system strength and a weaker Southern Hemisphere Hadley circulation. The NCEP/NCAR reanalyses do not reproduce accurately the decadal variability of the atmospheric circulation over West Africa because of artifical biases. Therefore the impact of the decadal scale pattern of the atmospheric circulation has been investigated with atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) sensitivity experiments, by forcing the ARPEGE-Climat model with different combinations of an El Niño-like SST pattern with the pattern of the main mode of decadal scale SST variability where the hightest weights are located in the Pacific and Indian basins. AGCM outputs show that the decadal scale SST variations weakly affect Sahel rainfall variability but that they do induce an indirect effect on Sahel rainfall by enhancing the impact of the warm ENSO phases after 1980, through an increase in the fill-in of the monsoon trough and a moisture advection deficit over West Africa. 相似文献
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利用全球大气环流模式CAM3.1,对近百年温室气体浓度、全球海表面温度、太阳常数的变化以及火山活动对我国地表气温所产生的影响进行了研究。全球海表面温度的升高及温室气体浓度的增加是导致中国年平均地表气温升高的部分因素。近百年我国年平均地表气温主要经历了两次年代际振荡并逐渐增温。第一次振荡的冷期为1910年代,随后变暖,1940年代达暖峰期。第二次振荡冷期发生于1950~1960年代,随后变暖,暖峰期发生在1990年代。太阳常数和全球海表面温度的两次振荡是造成这两次振荡主要因素,气温、太阳常数和全球海表面温度均发生了准60年周期的年代际振荡,气温振荡的位相落后于太阳常数和全球海表面温度的位相。20世纪20年代以前及60年代以后火山活动的活跃是导致1910年代和1960~1980年代出现冷期的原因之一。 相似文献
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The influence of ocean–atmosphere coupling on the simulation and prediction of the boreal winter Madden–Julian Oscillation
(MJO) is examined using the Seoul National University coupled general circulation model (CGCM) and atmospheric—only model
(AGCM). The AGCM is forced with daily SSTs interpolated from pentad mean CGCM SSTs. Forecast skill is examined using serial
extended simulations spanning 26 different winter seasons with 30-day forecasts commencing every 5 days providing a total
of 598 30-day simulations. By comparing both sets of experiments, which share the same atmospheric components, the influence
of coupled ocean–atmosphere processes on the simulation and prediction of MJO can be studied. The mean MJO intensity possesses
more realistic amplitude in the CGCM than in AGCM. In general, the ocean–atmosphere coupling acts to improve the simulation
of the spatio-temporal evolution of the eastward propagating MJO and the phase relationship between convection (OLR) and SST
over the equatorial Indian Ocean and the western Pacific. Both the CGCM and observations exhibit a near-quadrature relationship
between OLR and SST, with the former lagging by about two pentads. However, the AGCM shows a less realistic phase relationship.
As the initial conditions are the same in both models, the additional forcing by SST anomalies in the CGCM extends the prediction
skill beyond that of the AGCM. To test the applicability of the CGCM to real-time prediction, we compute the Real-time Multivariate
MJO (RMM) index and compared it with the index computed from observations. RMM1 (RMM2) falls away rapidly to 0.5 after 17–18
(15–16) days in the AGCM and 18–19 (16–17) days in the CGCM. The prediction skill is phase dependent in both the CGCM and
AGCM. 相似文献
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The predictability of atmospheric responses to global sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies is evaluated using ensemble
simulations of two general circulation models (GCMs): the GENESIS version 1.5 (GEN) and the ECMWF cycle 36 (ECM). The integrations
incorporate observed SST variations but start from different initial land and atmospheric states. Five GEN 1980–1992 and six
ECM 1980–1988 realizations are compared with observations to distinguish predictable SST forced climate signals from internal
variability. To facilitate the study, correlation analysis and significance evaluation techniques are developed on the basis
of time series permutations. It is found that the annual mean global area with realistic signals is variable dependent and
ranges from 3 to 20% in GEN and 6 to 28% in ECM. More than 95% of these signal areas occur between 35 °S–35 °N. Due to the
existence of model biases, robust responses, which are independent of initial condition, are identified over broader areas.
Both GCMs demonstrate that the sensitivity to initial conditions decreases and the predictability of SST forced responses
increases, in order, from 850 hPa zonal wind, outgoing longwave radiation, 200 hPa zonal wind, sea-level pressure to 500 hPa
height. The predictable signals are concentrated in the tropical and subtropical Pacific Ocean and are identified with typical
El Ni?o/ Southern Oscillation phenomena that occur in response to SST and diabatic heating anomalies over the equatorial central
Pacific. ECM is less sensitive to initial conditions and better predicts SST forced climate changes. This results from (1)
a more realistic basic climatology, especially of the upper-level wind circulation, that produces more realistic interactions
between the mean flow, stationary waves and tropical forcing; (2) a more vigorous hydrologic cycle that amplifies the tropical
forcing signals, which can exceed internal variability and be more efficiently transported from the forcing region. Differences
between the models and observations are identified. For GEN during El Ni?o, the convection does not carry energy to a sufficiently
high altitude, while the spread of the tropospheric warming along the equator is slower and the anomaly magnitude smaller
than observed. This impacts model ability to simulate realistic responses over Eurasia and the Indian Ocean. Similar biases
exist in the ECM responses. In addition, the relationships between upper and lower tropospheric wind responses to SST forcing
are not well reproduced by either model. The identification of these model biases leads to the conclusion that improvements
in convective heat and momentum transport parametrizations and basic climate simulations could substantially increase predictive
skill.
Received: 25 April 1996 / Accepted: 9 December 1996 相似文献
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Decadal Sahelian rainfall variability was mainly driven by sea surface temperatures (SSTs) during the twentieth century. At the same time SSTs showed a marked long-term global warming (GW) trend. Superimposed on this long-term trend decadal and multi-decadal variability patterns are observed like the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and the inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO). Using an atmospheric general circulation model we investigate the relative contribution of each component to the Sahelian precipitation variability. To take into account the uncertainty related to the use of different SST data sets, we perform the experiments using HadISST1 and ERSSTv3 reconstructed sets. The simulations show that all three SST signals have a significant impact over West Africa: the positive phases of the GW and the IPO lead to drought over the Sahel, while a positive AMO enhances Sahel rainfall. The tropical SST warming is the main cause for the GW impact on Sahel rainfall. Regarding the AMO, the pattern of anomalous precipitation is established by the SSTs in the Atlantic and Mediterranean basins. In turn, the tropical SST anomalies control the impact of the IPO component on West Africa. Our results suggest that the low-frequency evolution of Sahel rainfall can be interpreted as the competition of three factors: the effect of the GW, the AMO and the IPO. Following this interpretation, our results show that 50% of the SST-driven Sahel drought in the 1980s is explained by the change to a negative phase of the AMO, and that the GW contribution was 10%. In addition, the partial recovery of Sahel rainfall in recent years was mainly driven by the AMO. 相似文献
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Besides sea surface temperature (SST), soil moisture (SM) exhibits a significant memory and is likely to contribute to atmospheric
predictability at the seasonal timescale. In this respect, West Africa was recently highlighted as a “hot spot” where the
land–atmosphere coupling could play an important role, through the recycling of precipitation and the modulation of the meridional
gradient of moist static energy. Particularly intriguing is the observed relationship between summer monsoon rainfall over
Sahel and the previous second rainy season over the Guinean Coast, suggesting the possibility of a soil moisture memory beyond
the seasonal timescale. The present study is aimed at revisiting this question through a detailed analysis of the instrumental
record and a set of numerical sensitivity experiments. Three ensembles of global atmospheric simulations have been designed
to assess the relative influence of SST and SM boundary conditions on the West African monsoon predictability over the 1986–1995
period. On the one hand, the results indicate that SM contributes to rainfall predictability at the end and just after the
rainy season over the Sahel, through a positive soil-precipitation feedback that is consistent with the “hot spot” hypothesis.
On the other hand, SM memory decreases very rapidly during the dry season and does not contribute to the predictability of
the all-summer monsoon rainfall. Though possibly model dependent, this conclusion is reinforced by the statistical analysis
of the summer monsoon rainfall variability over the Sahel and its link with tropical SSTs. Our results indeed suggest that
the apparent relationship with the previous second rainy season over the Guinean Coast is mainly an artefact of rainfall teleconnections
with tropical modes of SST variability both at interannual and multi-decadal timescales. 相似文献
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Summary Groundnut production strongly contributes to Senegal’s economy. Interannual variations of groundnut yield for the country
as a whole, and their relationship with rainfall amounts, are examined for the 31-yr period 1960–1990. It is shown that on
that scale, and after removing decadal trends, almost half of the variance is explained by rainfall variability, especially
that of the early part of the rainy season (July–August). Given the high spatial coherence of seasonal rainfall in the region,
teleconnections with global- and regional-scale climate dynamics, including sea-surface temperatures, are assessed. Though
some features are similar to the rest of the Sahel, others are more specific, such as the higher sensitivity to ENSO (El-Ni?o
Southern Oscillation) and to coupled ocean-atmosphere climate anomalies over the nearby Tropical North Atlantic Ocean, which
are associated to the latitudinal location of the ITCZ over the ocean. Lag-correlations with pre-season SST are also discussed.
Some of these teleconnections are used to define preliminary empirical models for rainfall and groundnut yield prediction
for Senegal.
Received March 23, 1998 Revised January 11, 1999 相似文献
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Sensitivity of the Northern Hemisphere circulation to North Atlantic SSTs in the ARPÈGE Climate AGCM
In order to determine the response of the atmosphere to winter sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the North Atlantic
area, we carried out ensemble runs of 20 years, forced with constant, perturbed, SST patterns using the climate version of
the ARPèGE AGCM, at T42 resolution. A Monte Carlo technique was applied, in such a way that the control experiment, forced
with observed climatological temperatures, and the four scenario experiments, forced with perturbed SSTs are equivalent to
a length of 20 independent winters. Four anomalous winter North Atlantic sea surface temperature (SST) fields have been constructed
by considering the observed SST variability in the main basins, namely the Labrador Sea and the Greenland Sea. Two patterns
are of the `seesaw' type, while the two others have same the polarity in both basins. The patterns have been reinforced by
a factor of 5–6 compared to presently observed multi-annual anomalies, in order to get SST anomalies which may have occurred
during periods of the Little Ice Age. The differences between each of the four winter simulations with perturbed SSTs and
the control run are analyzed in terms of tropospheric thickness, mean-sea-level pressure and storm activity. The `seesaw'
type patterns give a weaker response in the tropospheric thickness fields than the two others. This is expected from simple
considerations. In the mean circulation and synoptic activity, it appears that the Labrador Sea SST is important in determining
the atmospheric response. This is probably due to enhanced temperature gradients east of New Foundland which enhances the
storm activity.
Received: 23 September 1998 / Accepted: 17 November 1999 相似文献
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Recent studies have suggested that sea surface temperature (SST) is an important source of variability of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Here, we deal with four basic aspects contributing to this issue: (1) we investigate the characteristic time scales of this oceanic influence; (2) quantify the scale-dependent hindcast potential of the NAO during the twentieth century as derived from SST-driven atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) ensembles; (3) the relevant oceanic regions are identified, corresponding SST indices are defined and their relationship to the NAO are evaluated by means of cross spectral analysis and (4) our results are compared with long-term coupled control experiments with different ocean models in order to ensure whether the spectral relationship between the SST regions and the NAO is an intrinsic mode of the coupled climate system, involving the deep ocean circulation, rather than an artefact of the unilateral SST forcing. The observed year-to-year NAO fluctuations are barely influenced by the SST. On the decadal time scales the major swings of the observed NAO are well reproduced by various ensembles from the middle of the twentieth century onward, including the negative state in the 1960s and part of the positive trend afterwards. A six-member ECHAM4-T42 ensemble reveals that the SST boundary condition affects 25% of total decadal-mean and interdecadal-trend NAO variability throughout the twentieth century. The most coherent NAO-related SST feature is the well-known North Atlantic tripole. Additional contributions may arise from the southern Pacific and the low-latitude Indian Ocean. The coupled climate model control runs suggest only the North Atlantic SST-NAO relationship as being a true characteristic of the coupled climate system. The coherence and phase spectra of observations and coupled simulations are in excellent agreement, confirming the robustness of this decadal-scale North Atlantic air–sea coupled mode. 相似文献
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Physical Mechanism of the Impacts of the Tropical Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature on the Decadal Change of the Summer North Atlantic Oscillation 
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下载免费PDF全文 SUN Jian-Qi 《大气和海洋科学快报》2013,6(5):365-368
In this study,physical mechanism of the impacts of the tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature(SST)on decadal change of the summer North Atlantic Oscillation(SNAO)was explored using an atmospheric general circulation model(AGCM)developed at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics(ICTP).The simulation results indicate that the decadal warming of the SST over the tropical Atlantic after the late 1970s could have significantly enhanced the convection over the region.This enhanced convection would have strengthened the local meridional circulation over the Eastern Atlantic-North Africa-Western Europe region,exciting a meridional teleconnection.This teleconnection might have brought the signal of the tropical Atlantic SST to the Extratropics,consequently activating the variability of the eastern part of the SNAO southern center,which led to an eastward shift of the SNAO southern center around the late 1970s.Such physical processes are highly consistent with the previous observations. 相似文献
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The East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) circulation and summer rainfall over East China have experienced large decadal changes
during the latter half of the 20th century. To investigate the potential causes behind these changes, a series of simulations
using the national center for atmospheric research (NCAR) community atmospheric model version 3 (CAM3) and the geophysical
fluid dynamics laboratory (GFDL) atmospheric model version 2.1 (AM2.1) are analyzed. These simulations are forced separately
with different historical forcing, namely tropical sea surface temperature (SSTs), global SSTs, greenhouse gases plus aerosols,
and a combination of global SSTs and greenhouse gases plus aerosols. This study focuses on the relative roles of these individual
forcings in causing the observed monsoon and rainfall changes over East Asia during 1950–2000. The simulations from both models
show that the SST forcing, primarily from the Tropics, is able to induce most of the observed weakening of the EASM circulation,
while the greenhouse gas plus (direct) aerosol forcing increases the land-sea thermal contrast and thus enhances the EASM
circulation. The results suggest that the recent warming in the Tropics, especially the warming associated with the tropical
interdecadal variability centered over the central and eastern Pacific, is a primary cause for the weakening of the EASM since
the late 1970s. However, a realistic simulation of the relatively small-scale rainfall change pattern over East China remains
a challenge for the global models. 相似文献
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Summary The interannual variability of North-West India Winter Precipitation (NWIWP) has been examined in association with the variability
of sea surface temperature (SST), surface air temperature (SAT) and upper tropospheric (200 hPa) wind patterns over India
and the surrounding regions. We have considered data for a period of 54 years (1950–2003). During the years of excess NWIWP,
the SST was above normal over the equatorial Indian Ocean, SAT was below normal over east Mediterranean Sea and over the Himalayan
region and upper tropospheric westerlies strengthen and shift southwards. Upper tropospheric westerlies over north and central
India was found to be related with the SST anomalies over the equatorial Indian Ocean. The decrease of SAT over north India
and surroundings may largely be a manifestation of cooling brought about by excessive precipitation and sweep of cold air
advection in rear of the storms. The intensifying of upper troposphere westerlies embedded with a jet increases the upper
level divergence over north India due to increased horizontal shear resulting in intense anticyclone at upper troposphere. 相似文献
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S. Sandeep Frode Stordal Prashant D. Sardeshmukh Gilbert P. Compo 《Climate Dynamics》2014,43(1-2):103-117
There is still considerable uncertainty concerning twentieth century trends in the Pacific Walker Circulation (PWC). In this paper, observational datasets, coupled (CMIP5) and uncoupled (AGCM) model simulations, and additional numerical sensitivity experiments are analyzed to investigate twentieth century changes in the PWC and their physical mechanisms. The PWC weakens over the century in the CMIP5 simulations, but strengthens in the AGCM simulations and also in the observational twentieth century reanalysis (20CR) dataset. It is argued that the weakening in the CMIP5 simulations is not a consequence of a reduced global convective mass flux expected from simple considerations of the global hydrological response to global warming, but is rather due to a weakening of the zonal equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) gradient. Further clarification is provided by additional uncoupled atmospheric general circulation model simulations in which the ENSO-unrelated and ENSO-related portions of the observed SST changes are prescribed as lower boundary conditions. Both sets of SST forcing fields have a global warming trend, and both sets of simulations produce a weakening of the global convective mass flux. However, consistent with the strong role of the zonal SST gradient, the PWC strengthens in the simulations with the ENSO-unrelated SST forcing, which has a strengthening zonal SST gradient, despite the weakening of the global convective mass flux. Overall, our results suggest that the PWC strengthened during twentieth century global warming, but also that this strengthening was partly masked by a weakening trend associated with ENSO-related PWC variability. 相似文献
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Decadal interactions between the western tropical Pacific and the North Atlantic Oscillation 总被引：5，自引：5，他引：0
The relationship between interdecadal variations of tropical sea surface temperature (SST) in the last 120 years and circulation
anomalies related to the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is investigated in this study. Using an atmospheric general circulation
model (AGCM), we confirm observational evidence that variations in the SST gradient in the western tropical Pacific are related
to the NAO anomalies on decadal timescale, and may be contributing to the shift towards the positive NAO phase observed in
the late 20th century. The role played by the Indian Ocean-NAO teleconnection, advocated in recent studies focused on the
last 50 years, is also assessed in the context of the 120-year long record. It is suggested that a positive feedback between
the Pacific SST and the hemispheric circulation pattern embedding the decadal NAO signal may act to enhance the internal variability
of the coupled ocean–atmosphere system, and justify the stronger teleconnection found in observational data than in SST-forced
AGCM experiments.
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| Fred KucharskiEmail: |
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Keyan Fang Xiaohua Gou Fahu Chen Jinbao Li Rosanne D’Arrigo Edward Cook Tao Yang Nicole Davi 《Climate Dynamics》2010,35(4):577-585
We present a Palmer Drought Severity Index reconstruction (r = 0.61, P < 0.01) from 1440 to 2007 for the southeastern Tibetan Plateau, based on tree rings of the forest fir (Abies forrestii). Persistent decadal dry intervals were found in the 1440s–1460s, 1560s–1580s, 1700s, 1770s, 1810s, 1860s and 1980s, and
the extreme wet epochs were the 1480s–1490s, 1510s–1520s, 1590s, 1610s–1630s, 1720s–1730s, 1800s, 1830s, 1870s, 1930s, 1950s
and after the 1990s. Comparisons of our record with those identified in other moisture related reconstructions for nearby
regions showed that our reconstructed droughts were relatively consistent with those found in other regions of Indochina,
suggesting similar drought regimes. Spectral peaks of 2.3–5.5 years may be indicative of ENSO activity, as also suggested
by negative correlations with SSTs in the eastern equatorial and southeastern Pacific Ocean. Significant multidecadal spectral
peaks of 29.2–40.9 and 56.8–60.2 years were identified. As indicated by the spatial correlation patterns, the decadal-scale
variability may be linked to SST variations in the northern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. 相似文献
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Prediction of the Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly in the coming decades is a challenge as the SST anomaly changes over time due to natural and anthropogenic climate forcing. The climate changes in the mid-1970s and late-1990s were related to the decadal Pacific SST variability. The changes in the mid-1970s were associated with the positive phase of decadal El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-like SST variation, and the changes in the late-1990s were related to its negative phase. However, it is not clear whether this decadal SST variability is related to any external forcing. Here, we show that the effective solar radiation (ESR), which includes the net solar radiation and the effects of volcanic eruption, has modulated this decadal ENSO-like oscillation. The eastern Pacific warming (cooling) associated with this decadal ENSO-like oscillation over the past 139 years is significantly related to weak (strong) ESR. The weak ESR with strong volcanic eruption is found to strengthen the El Niño, resulting in an El Niño-like SST anomaly on the decadal time scale. The strong eruptions of the El Chicho’n (1982) and Pinatubo (1991) volcanoes reduced the ESR during the 1980s and 1990s, respectively. The radiation reduction weakened the Walker circulation due to the “ocean thermostat” mechanism that generates eastern Pacific warming associated with a decadal El Niño-like SST anomaly. This mechanism has been confirmed by the millennium run of ECHO-G model, in which the positive eastward gradient of SST over the equatorial Pacific was simulated under the weak ESR forcing on the decadal time scale. We now experience a reversal of the trend in the ESR. The strong solar radiation and lack of strong volcanic eruptions over the past 15 years have resulted in strong ESR, which should enhance the Walker circulation, leading to a La Niña-like SST anomaly. 相似文献
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北半球冬季阿留申低压－冰岛低压相关关系的年代际变化及其模拟 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
使用多种长期观测和再分析资料,分析了北半球冬季阿留申低压和冰岛低压相关关系的年代际变化。结果表明,两低压存在显著的负相关关系,使北太平洋和北大西洋海平面气压形成跷跷板式的变化(Aleutian Low-Icelandic Low Seesaw,AIS)。此外,AIS还存在显著的年代际变化,在1935~1949年和1980年后较为显著,其余时期并不显著。对1980年代的年代际转变分析表明,太平洋年代际振荡(Pacific Decadal Oscillation,PDO)在1970年代末的位相转变是AIS这次年代际转变的主要原因。PDO由负位相转变为正位相,使全球大部分大洋海表温度升高,而北太平洋海表温度降低,两低压显著变深,低压南部西风增强,从而通过Rossby波的频散效应使两低压强度形成显著负相关。1930年代中期的年代际转变与此类似,但强度较弱。同时,年代际背景的变化也影响到两低压的年际变化。在给定海表温度和海冰分布的驱动下,大气环流模式IAP AGCM4能基本模拟出AIS年代际转变的过程和机理,但仍存在一些偏差。 相似文献