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Palaeolimnology of Palaeozoic lakes, focussing on a single lake cycle in the Middle Devonian of the Orcadian Basin, Scotland (2006)

Stephenson, Michael H. ; Leng, Melanie J. ; Michie, Uisdean ; [weitere]

Elsevier

In: Earth-Science Reviews. 2006; 75(1-4): 177-197. Published 2006 Mar 01. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2005.09.002.

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Publikationsdatum: 2006-03-01

Print ISSN: 0012-8252

Digitale ISSN: 1872-6828

Thema: Geographie , Geologie und Paläontologie

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Granger Causality of Coupled Climate Processes: Ocean Feedback on the North Atlantic Oscillation (2006)

Mosedale, Timothy J. ; Stephenson, David B. ; Collins, Matthew ; [weitere]

American Meteorological Society

In: Journal of Climate. 2006; 19(7): 1182-1194. Published 2006 Apr 01. doi: 10.1175/jcli3653.1.

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Publikationsdatum: 2006-04-01

Beschreibung: This study uses a Granger causality time series modeling approach to quantitatively diagnose the feedback of daily sea surface temperatures (SSTs) on daily values of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) as simulated by a realistic coupled general circulation model (GCM). Bivariate vector autoregressive time series models are carefully fitted to daily wintertime SST and NAO time series produced by a 50-yr simulation of the Third Hadley Centre Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere GCM (HadCM3). The approach demonstrates that there is a small yet statistically significant feedback of SSTs on the NAO. The SST tripole index is found to provide additional predictive information for the NAO than that available by using only past values of NAO—the SST tripole is Granger causal for the NAO. Careful examination of local SSTs reveals that much of this effect is due to the effect of SSTs in the region of the Gulf Steam, especially south of Cape Hatteras. The effect of SSTs on NAO is responsible for the slower-than-exponential decay in lag-autocorrelations of NAO notable at lags longer than 10 days. The persistence induced in daily NAO by SSTs causes long-term means of NAO to have more variance than expected from averaging NAO noise if there is no feedback of the ocean on the atmosphere. There are greater long-term trends in NAO than can be expected from aggregating just short-term atmospheric noise, and NAO is potentially predictable provided that future SSTs are known. For example, there is about 10%–30% more variance in seasonal wintertime means of NAO and almost 70% more variance in annual means of NAO due to SST effects than one would expect if NAO were a purely atmospheric process.

Print ISSN: 0894-8755

Digitale ISSN: 1520-0442

Thema: Geographie , Geologie und Paläontologie , Physik

Publiziert von American Meteorological Society

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Toward an Integrated Seasonal Forecasting System for South America (2006)

Coelho, C. A. S. ; Stephenson, D. B. ; Balmaseda, M. ; [weitere]

American Meteorological Society

In: Journal of Climate. 2006; 19(15): 3704-3721. Published 2006 Aug 01. doi: 10.1175/jcli3801.1.

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Publikationsdatum: 2006-08-01

Beschreibung: This study proposes an objective integrated seasonal forecasting system for producing well-calibrated probabilistic rainfall forecasts for South America. The proposed system has two components: (i) an empirical model that uses Pacific and Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies as predictors for rainfall and (ii) a multimodel system composed of three European coupled ocean–atmosphere models. Three-month lead austral summer rainfall predictions produced by the components of the system are integrated (i.e., combined and calibrated) using a Bayesian forecast assimilation procedure. The skill of empirical, coupled multimodel, and integrated forecasts obtained with forecast assimilation is assessed and compared. The simple coupled multimodel ensemble has a comparable level of skill to that obtained using a simplified empirical approach. As for most regions of the globe, seasonal forecast skill for South America is low. However, when empirical and coupled multimodel predictions are combined and calibrated using forecast assimilation, more skillful integrated forecasts are obtained than with either empirical or coupled multimodel predictions alone. Both the reliability and resolution of the forecasts have been improved by forecast assimilation in several regions of South America. The Tropics and the area of southern Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and northern Argentina have been found to be the two most predictable regions of South America during the austral summer. Skillful rainfall forecasts are generally only possible during El Niño or La Niña years rather than in neutral years.

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Digitale ISSN: 1520-0442

Thema: Geographie , Geologie und Paläontologie , Physik

Publiziert von American Meteorological Society

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Diagnosis of Variability and Trends in a Global Precipitation Dataset Using a Physically Motivated Statistical Model (2006)

Sapiano, M. R. P. ; Stephenson, D. B. ; Grubb, H. J. ; [weitere]

American Meteorological Society

In: Journal of Climate. 2006; 19(17): 4154-4166. Published 2006 Sep 01. doi: 10.1175/jcli3849.1.

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Publikationsdatum: 2006-09-01

Beschreibung: A physically motivated statistical model is used to diagnose variability and trends in wintertime (October–March) Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) pentad (5-day mean) precipitation. Quasigeostrophic theory suggests that extratropical precipitation amounts should depend multiplicatively on the pressure gradient, saturation specific humidity, and the meridional temperature gradient. This physical insight has been used to guide the development of a suitable statistical model for precipitation using a mixture of generalized linear models: a logistic model for the binary occurrence of precipitation and a Gamma distribution model for the wet day precipitation amount. The statistical model allows for the investigation of the role of each factor in determining variations and long-term trends. Saturation specific humidity qs has a generally negative effect on global precipitation occurrence and with the tropical wet pentad precipitation amount, but has a positive relationship with the pentad precipitation amount at mid- and high latitudes. The North Atlantic Oscillation, a proxy for the meridional temperature gradient, is also found to have a statistically significant positive effect on precipitation over much of the Atlantic region. Residual time trends in wet pentad precipitation are extremely sensitive to the choice of the wet pentad threshold because of increasing trends in low-amplitude precipitation pentads; too low a choice of threshold can lead to a spurious decreasing trend in wet pentad precipitation amounts. However, for not too small thresholds, it is found that the meridional temperature gradient is an important factor for explaining part of the long-term trend in Atlantic precipitation.

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Thema: Geographie , Geologie und Paläontologie , Physik

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Serial Clustering of Extratropical Cyclones (2006)

Mailier, Pascal J. ; Stephenson, David B. ; Ferro, Christopher A. T. ; [weitere]

American Meteorological Society

In: Monthly Weather Review. 2006; 134(8): 2224-2240. Published 2006 Aug 01. doi: 10.1175/mwr3160.1.

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Publikationsdatum: 2006-08-01

Beschreibung: The clustering in time (seriality) of extratropical cyclones is responsible for large cumulative insured losses in western Europe, though surprisingly little scientific attention has been given to this important property. This study investigates and quantifies the seriality of extratropical cyclones in the Northern Hemisphere using a point-process approach. A possible mechanism for serial clustering is the time-varying effect of the large-scale flow on individual cyclone tracks. Another mechanism is the generation by one “parent” cyclone of one or more “offspring” through secondary cyclogenesis. A long cyclone-track database was constructed for extended October–March winters from 1950 to 2003 using 6-h analyses of 850-mb relative vorticity derived from the NCEP–NCAR reanalysis. A dispersion statistic based on the variance-to-mean ratio of monthly cyclone counts was used as a measure of clustering. It reveals extensive regions of statistically significant clustering in the European exit region of the North Atlantic storm track and over the central North Pacific. Monthly cyclone counts were regressed on time-varying teleconnection indices with a log-linear Poisson model. Five independent teleconnection patterns were found to be significant factors over Europe: the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the east Atlantic pattern, the Scandinavian pattern, the east Atlantic–western Russian pattern, and the polar–Eurasian pattern. The NAO alone is not sufficient for explaining the variability of cyclone counts in the North Atlantic region and western Europe. Rate dependence on time-varying teleconnection indices accounts for the variability in monthly cyclone counts, and a cluster process did not need to be invoked.

Print ISSN: 0027-0644

Digitale ISSN: 1520-0493

Thema: Geographie , Geologie und Paläontologie , Physik

Publiziert von American Meteorological Society

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