Core region of Arctic Oscillation and the main atmospheric events impact on the Arctic

Details Core region of Arctic Oscillation and the main atmospheric events impact on the Arctic Core region of Arctic Oscillation and the main atmospheric events impact on the Arctic

Nov 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006georl..3322708z&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 22, CiteID L22708

Physics

Geophysics

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Global Change: Abrupt/Rapid Climate Change (4901, 8408), Global Change: Climate Variability (1635, 3305, 3309, 4215, 4513), History Of Geophysics: Ocean Sciences, Atmospheric Processes: Climate Change And Variability (1616, 1635, 3309, 4215, 4513), Oceanography: General: Arctic And Antarctic Oceanography (9310, 9315)

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Arctic Oscillation (AO) is a seesaw pattern in which sea level pressure (SLP) at the polar and middle latitudes in North Hemisphere fluctuates between positive and negative phases. It has been used as a representative atmospheric circulation index to express climate change. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the regional difference of SLP variation. By calculating the correlation coefficients of AO Index with all the gridded SLPs, we have uncovered a special region named as Arctic Oscillation Core Region (AOCR), where the running correlation coefficients (RCC) between gridded SLP and AO index are all negative. The averaged SLP of this region correlates significantly with the AO index. The correlations between local SLPs and AO index outside of AOCR are weaker than those inside. RCC analysis reveals several strong discrepant events different from AO. These events occurred in the years of 1954, 1955, 1962, 1971, 1982/83, 1995, 1996/97, 1998, and 1999. A comparison of these events and the ENSO or PDO indices suggests that the events in 1982/83 and 1998 are probably associated with the ENSO processes. Events centered in other years are likely connected with PDO, which reached their minima in the years of 1950, 1955, 1962 and 1971. The result in this study provides an alternative insight to look at the mechanism of the variation of Arctic Oscillation.

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