Winter Time Heat Flux Variations in the Northern Hemispheric Stratosphere

Other

Scientific paper

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

Scientific paper

Transport of heat in the stratosphere by the planetary waves, which is usually referred to as eddy heat flux (HF), attracted a lot of attention in the recent years. Since sources of the planetary waves are in the troposphere, HF in the stratosphere could be regarded as an external forcing. This makes HF very useful proxy for stratospheric temperature and ozone regression models. Here, we investigate some details of the winter long-term and year-to-year variability of HF in the lower and middle stratosphere of the Northern Hemisphere. The investigation of long-term variations of HF during last decades revealed negative trends in the January-February HF and positive trends in the November-December HF. While the negative trend of HF in January and February has already been discussed by other authors, the positive trend in the beginning of the winter was not, to our knowledge, realized. The opposite behavior of the November-December and January-February HF is confirmed by statistically significant negative correlation. Absolute values of the correlation coefficient increase from the lower to middle stratosphere. These results are discussed. Possibility of prediction of the January-February HF from the November-December HF is investigated.

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

Winter Time Heat Flux Variations in the Northern Hemispheric Stratosphere 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 Winter Time Heat Flux Variations in the Northern Hemispheric Stratosphere, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Winter Time Heat Flux Variations in the Northern Hemispheric Stratosphere will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-844544

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