CT1/CT3 Meeting April 2013 Hamburg Predictability associated with the Atlantic ocean SST variability G. Gastineau, J. Garcia-Serrano, C. Frankignoul
Introduction Atlantic ocean SST variability : AMO + North Atlantic Horseshoe Are both pattern related? What are their influence on the European/American climate?
Data and methods Data : Atmosphere : 20CR-NOAA reanalysis (56 members) SST : HadISST Global warming influence removed : SST : Regression over the global mean SST time series removed Atmosphere : detrend
Global SST warming
Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation AMO = low pass (10-yr) filtered North Atlantic SST AMO-proj = SST filtered with a ¼ ½ ¼ filtered projected onto AMO spatial pattern
Climatic impact of AMO
Maximum covariance analysis
North Atlantic Horseshoe Such mode is found in all ensemble members (at least for OND) PDF for NAH significance in OND SC R
Climate impact of NAH
Links horseshoe - AMO AMO-proj AMO-std
Non-stationarity Moving correlation between NAH and AMO using 20-yr window : Moving correlation between NAH and NAO in NDJ using 20-yr window :
Ongoing work Remove remote influence of Indo-Pacific variability Explain the non-stationary in the AMO-NAH links Compare the relative influence of SST to that of snow cover and sea ice cover. Focus also on the summer impacts of AMO
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union 7th Framework Programme (FP ), under grant agreement n NACLIM