The North American winter 'dipole' and extremes activity: A CMIP5 assessment
Abstract
The 2013-2014 winter in North American brought intense drought in the West and severe cold in the East. The circulation anomalies were characterized as a dipole: an amplified upper-level ridge over the West Coast and a deepened trough over the central-eastern United States. A previous study using a single model has linked the dipole to the El Nino precursor and found that this link has strengthened in recent years. Here, 17 models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 are used to examine the dipole activity. As a result, most models capture the dipole and its association with El Nino precursor and project this association to strengthen.
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- Utah State Univ., Logan, UT (United States)
- National Taiwan Normal Univ., Taipei (Taiwan)
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1362001
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-108268
Journal ID: ISSN 1530-261X; KP1703020
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Atmospheric Science Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 16; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1530-261X
- Publisher:
- Royal Meteorological Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; California drought; dipole; west Pacific warming; ENSO precursor
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Wang, Shih-Yu Simon, Huang, Wan -Ru, and Yoon, Jin -Ho. The North American winter 'dipole' and extremes activity: A CMIP5 assessment. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1002/asl2.565.
Wang, Shih-Yu Simon, Huang, Wan -Ru, & Yoon, Jin -Ho. The North American winter 'dipole' and extremes activity: A CMIP5 assessment. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/asl2.565
Wang, Shih-Yu Simon, Huang, Wan -Ru, and Yoon, Jin -Ho. Fri .
"The North American winter 'dipole' and extremes activity: A CMIP5 assessment". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/asl2.565. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1362001.
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title = {The North American winter 'dipole' and extremes activity: A CMIP5 assessment},
author = {Wang, Shih-Yu Simon and Huang, Wan -Ru and Yoon, Jin -Ho},
abstractNote = {The 2013-2014 winter in North American brought intense drought in the West and severe cold in the East. The circulation anomalies were characterized as a dipole: an amplified upper-level ridge over the West Coast and a deepened trough over the central-eastern United States. A previous study using a single model has linked the dipole to the El Nino precursor and found that this link has strengthened in recent years. Here, 17 models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 are used to examine the dipole activity. As a result, most models capture the dipole and its association with El Nino precursor and project this association to strengthen.},
doi = {10.1002/asl2.565},
journal = {Atmospheric Science Letters},
number = 3,
volume = 16,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2015}
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