The North-Africa/Western Asia (NAWA) sea level pressure index: A Mediterranean signature of the Northern Annular Mode (NAM)

Physics

Scientific paper

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

2

Global Change: Atmosphere (0315, 0325), Global Change: Climate Dynamics (3309), Hydrology: Desertification, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Climatology (1620), Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Precipitation (1854)

Scientific paper

Following work by Paz et al. [2003], the relationship between NAWA and the Eastern Mediterranean (EM) winter climate is explored further. It is found that NAWA can be viewed as the regional signature of the hemispheric northern annular mode (NAM), at all time scales. While in-phase variability of winter NAM and NAWA increased after the so-called climate shift of 1976-77, largest correlation between the two indices is found during January. This is also the month when largest correlations are to be found between NAM and the NAWA poles. Correlations between NAWA and NAM are larger than that between NAWA and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Further evidence of direct relationship between NAM, NAWA, winter air temperature and rainfall in the EM is given.

No associations

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for scientists and scientific papers. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

The North-Africa/Western Asia (NAWA) sea level pressure index: A Mediterranean signature of the Northern Annular Mode (NAM) does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with The North-Africa/Western Asia (NAWA) sea level pressure index: A Mediterranean signature of the Northern Annular Mode (NAM), we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and The North-Africa/Western Asia (NAWA) sea level pressure index: A Mediterranean signature of the Northern Annular Mode (NAM) will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1064813

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.