Solar modulation of the Northern Hemisphere winter trends and its implications with increasing CO2

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Feb 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008georl..3503704k&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, Issue 3, CiteID L03704

Physics

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Global Change: Solar Variability (7537), Global Change: Impacts Of Global Change (1225), Global Change: Global Climate Models (3337, 4928), Global Change: Climate Dynamics (0429, 3309), Atmospheric Processes: Middle Atmosphere Dynamics (0341, 0342)

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The origin of the recent trends in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) winter circulation is investigated. Linear trends are calculated separately for low solar (LS) and high solar (HS) winters. Trends during HS exhibit a North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)/Arctic Oscillation (AO)-like pattern that is related to a stronger stratospheric polar vortex. Whereas during LS, decreasing trends of sea-level pressure appear over the northeastern Pacific in association with warming trends in the tropical troposphere which lead to a strengthening of the subtropical jet and a weakening of the polar night jet. These two trends compare well with those found in previous numerical model simulations where the CO2 was doubled in either the troposphere or the middle atmosphere. This suggests that the stratospheric cooling effect due to increased CO2 manifests in the troposphere through nonlinear interaction with solar cycle.

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