Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001georl..28.4115b&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 28, Issue 21, p. 4115-4118
Physics
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Global Change: Climate Dynamics, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Climatology
Scientific paper
Annular modes are patterns characterized by synchronous fluctuations in surface pressure of one sign over the polar caps and the opposite sign at lower latitudes. The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) and Northern Annular Mode (NAM, also called the Arctic Oscillation) patterns are the leading empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs) of slowly-varying, hemispheric, cold-season, sea-level pressure anomalies (deviations from climatology). Daily indices of the SAM and NAM are a measure of the similarity between surface pressure anomaly patterns and the annular modes. Here it is shown that the first two EOF time series of daily, global, year-round, zonally-averaged surface pressure are nearly identical to the SAM and NAM indices. Together they account for more than 57% of the daily variance of zonally-averaged surface pressure. The SAM and NAM patterns extend through the tropics, well into the opposite hemispheres. Fluctuations of the SAM and NAM indices are accompanied by interhemispheric transfer of mass.
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