Abstract: The use of empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs) has grown popular as a tool to determine underlying variability from the rapidly increasing volume of climate data. It has been noted that the dominant or first EOF of ...

Abstract: The warming trend in global surface temperatures over the last 40 yr is clear and consistent with anthropogenic increases in greenhouse gases. Over the last 2 decades, this trend appears to have accelerated. In contrast ...

Abstract: Recently it has been shown that the area extent of Eurasian snow cover during September?October?November (SON) and the principal component of the leading mode of extratropical Northern Hemisphere (NH) climate variability ...

Abstract: A series of numerical simulations by an atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) was conducted to evaluate the relative roles of Tibetan Plateau (TP) and continental-scale land surface processes on the Asian monsoon ...

Abstract: A series of simplistic simulations from an AGCM coupled to a simple land surface scheme and water vapor tracers was performed to explore the relative roles of basic factors in land surface conditions, with regard to the ...

Abstract: A diagnostic of Northern Hemisphere winter extratropical stratosphere?troposphere interactions is presented to facilitate the study of stratosphere?troposphere coupling and to examine what might influence these interactions. ...