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contributor authorPaek, Houk
contributor authorHuang, Huei-Ping
date accessioned2017-06-09T17:04:48Z
date available2017-06-09T17:04:48Z
date copyright2012/07/01
date issued2012
identifier issn0894-8755
identifier otherams-79064.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4221803
description abstractn intercomparison of the global relative angular momentum MR in five reanalysis datasets, including the Twentieth Century Reanalysis (20CR), is performed for the second half of the twentieth century. The intercomparison forms a stringent test for 20CR because the variability of MR is known to be strongly influenced by the variability of upper-tropospheric zonal wind whereas 20CR assimilated only surface observations. The analysis reveals good agreement for decadal-to-multidecadal variability among all of the datasets, including 20CR, for the second half of the twentieth century. The discrepancies among different datasets are mainly in the slowest component, the long-term trend, of MR. Once the data are detrended, the resulting decadal-to-multidecadal variability shows even better agreement among all of the datasets. This result indicates that 20CR can be reliably used for the analysis of decadal-to-interdecadal variability in the pre-1950 era, provided that the data are properly detrended. As a quick application, it is found that the increase in MR during the 1976/77 climate-shift event remains the sharpest over the entire period from 1871 to 2008 covered by 20CR. The nontrivial difference in the long-term trend between 20CR and the other reanalysis datasets found in this study provides a caution against using 20CR to determine the trend on the centennial time scale that is relevant to climate change. These conclusions are restricted to the quantities that depend strongly on the upper-tropospheric zonal wind, but the approach adopted in this work will be useful for future intercomparisons of the low-frequency behavior of other climate indices in the reanalysis datasets.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleA Comparison of Decadal-to-Interdecadal Variability and Trend in Reanalysis Datasets Using Atmospheric Angular Momentum
typeJournal Paper
journal volume25
journal issue13
journal titleJournal of Climate
identifier doi10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00358.1
journal fristpage4750
journal lastpage4758
treeJournal of Climate:;2012:;volume( 025 ):;issue: 013
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