The North American winter 'dipole' and extremes activity: A CMIP5 assessment

Wang, Shih-Yu Simon; Huang, Wan -Ru; Yoon, Jin -Ho

doi:10.1002/asl2.565

Title: The North American winter 'dipole' and extremes activity: A CMIP5 assessment

Journal Article · Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Atmospheric Science Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/asl2.565· OSTI ID:1362001

Wang, Shih-Yu Simon ^[1]; Huang, Wan -Ru ^[2]; Yoon, Jin -Ho ^[3]

Utah State Univ., Logan, UT (United States)
National Taiwan Normal Univ., Taipei (Taiwan)
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

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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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

OSTI ID:: 1362001

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-108268; KP1703020

Journal Information:: Atmospheric Science Letters, Vol. 16, Issue 3; ISSN 1530-261X

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