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RISDiagnosis of the Surface Momentum Balance over the Tropical Pacific Ocean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the suitability of using linear drag as a proxy for surface friction in the observed climatological-mean momentum balance over the tropical Pacific Ocean. The linear drag parameterization ...
A Climatology of Diurnal and Semidiurnal Surface Wind Variations over the Tropical Pacific Ocean Based on the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Moored Buoy Array
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Hourly measurements from 51 moored buoys in the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean array (9°N?8°S, 165°E?95°W) during 1993?2004 are used to document the climatological seasonal and annual mean patterns of diurnal and semidiurnal ...
Impacts of Projected Arctic Sea Ice Loss on Daily Weather Patterns over North America
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Climatological Characteristics of Typical Daily Precipitation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractPrecipitation is often quantified by the amount that falls over a given period of time but not the rate at which most of it falls or the rate associated with the most frequent events. Here, three metrics are ...
Atmospheric Circulation Trends, 1950–2000: The Relative Roles of Sea Surface Temperature Forcing and Direct Atmospheric Radiative Forcing
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The relative roles of direct atmospheric radiative forcing (due to observed changes in well-mixed greenhouse gases, tropospheric and stratospheric ozone, sulfate and volcanic aerosols, and solar output) and observed sea ...
Asymmetry in the Duration of El Niño and La Niña
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: El Niño and La Niña are not a simple mirror image, but exhibit significant differences in their spatial structure and seasonal evolution. In particular, sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies over the equatorial Pacific ...
On the Relationship between Tropical and North Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Variations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Empirical orthogonal function analysis of winter sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies over the Pacific domain (60°N?20°S) reveals an El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) mode that is linked to the eastern North Pacific, ...
Internal Variability in Projections of Twenty-First-Century Arctic Sea Ice Loss: Role of the Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: nternal variability in twenty-first-century summer Arctic sea ice loss and its relationship to the large-scale atmospheric circulation is investigated in a 39-member Community Climate System Model, version 3 (CCSM3) ensemble ...
A Mechanism for the Recurrence of Wintertime Midlatitude SST Anomalies
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In the early 1970s, Namias and Born speculated that ocean temperature anomalies created over the deep mixed layer in winter could be preserved in the summer thermocline and reappear at the surface in the following fall or ...
Wind-Driven Thermocline Variability in the Pacific: A Model–Data Comparison
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The spatial and temporal patterns of interannual temperature variability within the main thermocline (200?400-m depth) of the Pacific (30°S?60°N) during 1968?97 are documented in two observational datasets and an ocean ...