Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007georl..3407709v&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 7, CiteID L07709
Physics
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Global Change: Climate Variability (1635, 3305, 3309, 4215, 4513), Atmospheric Processes: Tropical Meteorology, Atmospheric Processes: Ocean/Atmosphere Interactions (0312, 4504)
Scientific paper
Connections between the Atlantic Meridional Mode (AMM) and seasonal hurricane activity are investigated. The AMM, a dynamical ``mode'' of variability intrinsic to the tropical coupled ocean-atmosphere system, is strongly related to seasonal hurricane activity on both decadal and interannual time scales. The connection arises due to the AMM's relationship with a number of local climatic conditions that all cooperate in their influence on hurricane activity. Further analysis indicates that the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO) can excite the AMM on decadal time scales. As such, it is suggested that the AMO's influence on seasonal hurricane activity manifests itself through the AMM. This relationship between the AMM, AMO, and seasonal hurricane activity refocuses our understanding of how climate variations relate to seasonal hurricane activity in the Atlantic, and offers an improved framework beyond purely thermodynamic arguments that relates hurricanes to large-scale climate variations.
Kossin James P.
Vimont Daniel J.
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