Role of sea surface temperature, Arctic sea ice and Siberian snow in forcing the atmospheric circulation in winter of 2012-2013

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Yannick Peings, Gudrun Magnusdottir]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Climate Dynamics, 45/5-6(2015-09-01), 1181-1206
Format:
Artikel (online)
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245 0 0 |a Role of sea surface temperature, Arctic sea ice and Siberian snow in forcing the atmospheric circulation in winter of 2012-2013  |h [Elektronische Daten]  |c [Yannick Peings, Gudrun Magnusdottir] 
520 3 |a During the 2012-2013 winter, the negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) predominated, resulting in a cold winter over Europe and northern Asia punctuated by episodes of frigid weather. This climate anomaly is part of a recent trend towards negative values of the NAO index that has occurred over recent winters. The negative trend of the NAO may be related to atmospheric internal variability butit may also be partly forced by slowly varying components of the climate system. In the present study, we investigate the influence of surface conditions on the atmospheric circulation for the 2012-2013 winter using an atmospheric global climate model. In particular, the role of low Arctic sea ice concentration, warm tropical/North Atlantic sea surface temperature and positive Siberian snow cover anomalies are isolated by prescribing them in a set of different numerical experiments. Our simulations suggest that each of these surface forcings favored a negative NAO during the 2012-2013 winter. In our model, the combined NAO response to tropical/North Atlantic SST, Arctic sea ice and Siberian snow anomalies accounts for about 30% of the observed NAO anomaly. Different physical mechanisms are explored to elucidate the atmospheric responses and are shown to involve both tropical and extratropical processes. 
540 |a Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 
690 7 |a Climate variability  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a North Atlantic Oscillation  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Ocean-atmosphere interactions  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Arctic sea ice  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Siberian snow  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a 2012-2013 winter  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Peings  |D Yannick  |u Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, 92697-3100, Irvine, CA, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Magnusdottir  |D Gudrun  |u Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, 92697-3100, Irvine, CA, USA  |4 aut 
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950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Magnusdottir  |D Gudrun  |u Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, 92697-3100, Irvine, CA, USA  |4 aut 
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