Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
May 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009georl..3609703g&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 36, Issue 9, CiteID L09703
Physics
Geophysics
1
Atmospheric Processes: Climate Change And Variability (1616, 1635, 3309, 4215, 4513), Mathematical Geophysics: Time Series Analysis (1872, 4277, 4475), Atmospheric Processes: Ocean/Atmosphere Interactions (0312, 4504)
Scientific paper
A Singular Value Decomposition analysis is applied to climatological data to determine the modes of variability of monthly mean Sea Surface Temperature (SST) in the tropics coupled with the southern hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex intensity for the 1958 to 2006 period and to identify the tropical region strongly influencing the high latitude stratospheric dynamics. Two subsets of data have been considered by explicitly taking into account the phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). The study evidences a shift of the tropical region affecting the polar vortex from the Western Pacific to the Indo-Pacific Ocean, driven by the modulation of the SST pattern, due to the phase of the PDO. The analysis shows in both cases (years with positive/negative PDO phases) a high degree of correlation between an SST related index, calculated from NOAA/ERSST and HadISST datasets, and an index of the polar vortex intensity based on ECMWF data.
Grassi Barbara
Redaelli Gianluca
Visconti Guido
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