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NPJ CLIMATE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE
Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41612-022-00279-x
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- Korean Meteorological Administration Research and Development Program [KMI2020-01213]
- Centre for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research (CSHOR)
- Australian Government's National Environmental Science Program (NESP)
- Korea Meteorological Institute (KMI) [KMI2020-01213] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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The study found that the warming sea surface temperature in the Indian Ocean plays an important role in the positive trend of AO, characterized by a poleward shift of zonal-mean zonal winds. The momentum flux convergence by stationary waves and the reduced upward propagating wave activity flux over the North Pacific due to Indian Ocean warming contribute to the strengthening of the polar vortex and the positive trend of AO. Future projections of AO should consider the warming trend in tropical ocean basins, including the Indian Ocean.
Arctic oscillation (AO), which is the most dominant atmospheric variability in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) during the boreal winter, significantly affects the weather and climate at mid-to-high latitudes in the NH. Although a climate community has focused on a negative trend of AO in recent decades, the significant positive trend of AO over the last 60 years has not yet been thoroughly discussed. By analyzing reanalysis and Atmospheric Model Inter-comparison Project (AMIP) datasets with pacemaker experiments, we found that sea surface temperature warming in the Indian Ocean is conducive to the positive trend of AO from the late 1950s. The momentum flux convergence by stationary waves due to the Indian Ocean warming plays an important role in the positive trend of AO, which is characterized by a poleward shift of zonal-mean zonal winds. In addition, the reduced upward propagating wave activity flux over the North Pacific due to Indian Ocean warming also plays a role to strengthen the polar vortex, subsequently, it contributes to the positive trend of AO. Our results imply that the respective warming trend of tropical ocean basins including Indian Ocean, which is either anthropogenic forcing or natural variability or their combined effect, should be considered to correctly project the future AO's trend.
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