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van der Schrier, G and Jones, PD 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-5493
(2008)
Storminess and cold air outbreaks in NE America during AD 1790-1820.
Geophysical Research Letters, 35 (2 art. no. L02713).
ISSN 1944-8007
Abstract
Two hypotheses have been put forward to explain the anomalously deep trough in winter sea-level pressure in the northwestern Atlantic sector during the AD 1790–1820 period. One relates it to an increase in cyclolysis in this area, the other to a change in the general planetary circulation. In an attempt to distinguish between these hypotheses, storminess and cold air outbreaks (CAO) in the northeastern USA during 1790–1820 are studied, based on a record of daily pressure and temperature observations at Salem (Massachusetts, USA). Frequency changes of CAO act as proxy for planetary circulation changes. It is found that CAO in the early period were both more persistent and severe than those in the modern control period. No evidence of elevated levels of storminess in the 1790–1820 period was found. This suggests that the anomalously deep trough can be attributed mainly to a change in the planetary circulation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (former - to 2017) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climate, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (former - to 2017) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Rachel Snow |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2011 08:55 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jun 2023 23:59 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/25489 |
| DOI: | 10.1029/2007GL032259 |
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