The simulated atmospheric response to Western North Pacific Sea Surface temperature anomalies

Yook, Simchan, Thompson, David W. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5413-4376, Sun, Lantao and Patrizio, Casey (2022) The simulated atmospheric response to Western North Pacific Sea Surface temperature anomalies. Journal of Climate, 35 (11). 3335–3352. ISSN 0894-8755

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Abstract

Observations reveal two distinct patterns of atmospheric variability associated with wintertime variations in midlatitude sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the North Pacific sector: 1) a pattern of atmospheric circulation anomalies that peaks 2–3 weeks prior to large SST anomalies in the western North Pacific that is consistent with “atmospheric forcing” of the SST field, and 2) a pattern that lags SST anomalies in the western North Pacific by several weeks that is consistent with the “atmospheric response” to the SST field. Here we explore analogous lead–lag relations between the atmospheric circulation and western North Pacific SST anomalies in two sets of simulations run on the NCAR Community Earth System Model version 1 (CESM1): 1) a simulation run on a fully coupled version of CESM1 and 2) a simulation forced with prescribed, time-evolving SST anomalies over the western North Pacific region. Together, the simulations support the interpretation that the observed lead–lag relationships between western North Pacific SST anomalies and the atmospheric circulation reveal the patterns of atmospheric variability that both force and respond to midlatitude SST anomalies. The results provide numerical evidence that SST variability over the western North Pacific has a demonstrable effect on the large-scale atmospheric circulation throughout the North Pacific sector.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	atmosphere-ocean interaction,atmospheric circulation,north pacific ocean,sea surface temperature,atmospheric science ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1902
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	13 Oct 2022 10:39
Last Modified:	13 Jun 2023 08:42
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/89039
DOI:	10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0371.1

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