[PDF] Top 20 CLIVAR Exchanges No 4

... the CLIVAR NEGs) to investigate ways of obtaining improved assessments of regional changes, ...within CLIVAR itself (as undertaken by CLIVAR NEG-1), the WCRP generally, ... See full document

... Of particular importance is also the role of the Mediterranean to the global circulation (Fig. 4 page 17). The Mediterranean water injected into the Atlantic is entered into the North Atlantic thermohaline ... See full document

... Warming was predicted by the NCEP model from November 1996 although the magnitude was un- derestimated by at least a factor of 2 prior to April 1998. Forecasts after that time, at least until May 1998, were excellent. In ... See full document

... for CLIVAR to develop and communicate helpful knowledge, capabilities, and products to decision-makers has never been ...communities, CLIVAR needs to explore partnerships with individuals and programs that ... See full document

... and 4-5 years. The 4-5 year cycle is associated with a co- herent mode of behaviour that displays a wavenumber 2 pattern that has been named the Antarctic Cir- cumpolar Wave by White and Peterson ... See full document

... The point of the matter is further clarified when we make similar composites for SST and sea surface height (Figs. 5 and 6, pages 21 & 22). The SST compos- ites (Fig. 5a and 5b) for all IOD events show dipole pat- ... See full document

... Focusing on the altimetric drift rate estimates as- sumes that the altimetric data are already quite repeat- able; i.e., that the precision of these data is very good. Fu et al. (1994) provide a summary of results from ... See full document

... We present some new calculations regarding the influence of the Atlantic on NA. (This was done because while the existing literature is vast, it does not sufficiently focus on the question of the impact of the Atlantic ... See full document

... The regression of NCEP data with Niño3.4 indicates a seasonally changing anomalous moisture flux in association with the observed rainfall anomalies Figure 1, page 1: in autumn an anomal[r] ... See full document

... oceans’ boundary currents – the low-latitude, subtropi- cal, and subpolar western boundary currents, as well as the eastern boundary currents. Several different tech- niques are in use or planned for boundary current ... See full document

... (Fig. 4) are mostly negative over a significant part of the region except in the vicinity of Sumatra and Malay Peninsula, where the correlations range from zero to weakly ... See full document

... 4. For the last 6k years there are many more well dated high resolution records from a wide range of archives such as corals, tree rings and laminated lake sediments. There is also greater confidence in ... See full document

... The SALLJEX days have been divided into three different samples using the NCEP operational analyses: days without evidence of SALLJ (NSALLJ), days characterized by SALLJ occurrence penetrating to subtropical latitudes ... See full document

... The association apparent from the time series plotted in Figure 3 is not, in itself, convincing evidence that the IOD drives strong rainfall in East Africa. The SST in the western and eastern Indian Ocean, the eastern ... See full document

... the CLIVAR Pacific Panel, is aimed at targeting some of these ...The CLIVAR Pacific panel recommended establishing closer ties between PUMP and VOCALS, since equatorial processes may influence the ... See full document

... In the same thousand year simulation of ECBilt, propagat- ing SST variations are found in the Southern Oceans around the Antarctic continent at a typical timescale of 8 years. (Haarsma et al., 2000). These variations ... See full document

... The TAV seems to be associated with ENSO in the model. The squared coherence spectrum of the Niño3 SST with the NTA, EQA and STA SSTs shows that these three tropical Atlantic modes are highly correlated with ENSO at ... See full document

... The correlation between winter wE SAT and the sub- sequent IMR had been small until the most recent decades when it became significantly positive for the first time in more than a century (Fig. 1, page 1). This drastic ... See full document

... of CLIVAR-relevant data, make your data available to the wider community and facilitate its use in climate analyses and ocean reanalysis in ...major CLIVAR Workshop last ...of CLIVAR data ...the ... See full document

... also Exchanges, Vol. 3, No. 4, November 1998, p ...ed. CLIVAR NEG-1 pointed out that any predictabil- ity which was apparent at these timescales could be sensitive to the way the initial states for ... See full document