1. Response of the atmospheric circulation in non-tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere to processes taking place in the tropical region
- Author
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V. I. Byshev
- Subjects
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes ,Atmospheric circulation ,Northern Hemisphere ,Climate change ,Tropics ,Ocean Engineering ,Zonal and meridional ,Oceanography ,Atmospheric sciences ,Sea surface temperature ,Shutdown of thermohaline circulation ,Climatology ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Walker circulation ,Geology ,Water Science and Technology ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
The paper concentrates on the response of the atmospheric circulation non-tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere to considerable sea surface temperature anomalies regularly occurring in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, related to the El Nino event. It has been established that during El Nino, zonal western circulation and meridional southern circulation tend to decay (being −2.6% and −5.4% respectively), while meridional northern circulation intensifies (+8.0%). The paper examines regional peculiarities of the non-tropical atmospheric response to the processes taking in the tropics. It is shown that atmospheric circulation reconstruction is most essential in the Siberian (10.4%) and Pacific (10.2%) sections and is minimal (4.3%) in the Atlantic region. These peculiarities of the regional atmospheric circulation reconstruction may be taken into account to predict short-term climatic variations in the Northern Hemisphere.
- Published
- 1997