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contributor authorPark, Young-Hyang
contributor authorYoon, Jong-Hwan
contributor authorYoun, Yong-Hoon
contributor authorVivier, Frédéric
date accessioned2017-06-09T16:40:18Z
date available2017-06-09T16:40:18Z
date copyright2012/05/01
date issued2011
identifier issn0894-8755
identifier otherams-71935.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4213882
description abstractn the basis of a new East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) index and by analyzing the relationship between sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies and different atmospheric and oceanic factors in winter, this study investigates the causes of the recent unusual warming in the western North Pacific Ocean. Analyses presented here emphasize the dual contribution from the atmosphere and ocean to the local SST variability, with the relative importance of each contributor varying with the period and place. During the period 1970?89, the EAWM, controlled mostly by the Siberian high, is predominantly responsible for the SST variability in most of the western North Pacific, whereas in the period 1990?2005 ocean dynamics become increasingly important in most places or even dominant in the Kuroshio?Oyasio Extension (KOE) region. The delayed response of the KOE SST to basinwide wind stress curl forcing via Rossby waves is epoch dependent and is significant at lags of 1, 3, and 4 yr before 1990 but only at 1 yr afterward. This epoch dependency of the impact of Rossby waves is related to the different locations of the centers of action of wind stress curl in the midlatitude North Pacific between the two epochs. In addition, mean advection of the EAWM-driven anomalous SST from the southern East China Sea, which can be transported into the KOE region in about a year by the Kuroshio, likely affects the KOE SST lagged by 1 yr. The strongest positive SST trend observed in the western North Pacific results from the combined effects of the abrupt weakening of the EAWM due to the unprecedented decline of the Siberian high and the increasing role of the ocean. The latter is best evidenced by the 1-yr delayed response of the western North Pacific via the gyre circulation adjustment to the basinwide decadal-scale wind stress curl change associated with the northward shift of the strengthened Aleutian low.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleRecent Warming in the Western North Pacific in Relation to Rapid Changes in the Atmospheric Circulation of the Siberian High and Aleutian Low Systems
typeJournal Paper
journal volume25
journal issue10
journal titleJournal of Climate
identifier doi10.1175/2011JCLI4142.1
journal fristpage3476
journal lastpage3493
treeJournal of Climate:;2011:;volume( 025 ):;issue: 010
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