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Enhanced residual mean circulation during the evolution of split type sudden stratospheric warming in observations and model simulations

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JOURNAL OF EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE
Volume 127, Issue 5, Pages -

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INDIAN ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1007/s12040-018-0972-x

Keywords

Split events; stratospheric sudden warming; residual mean circulation

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  1. Erasmus Mundus (EMINTE) post-doctoral scholarship at FU, Berlin

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Residual mean circulation changes during the evolution of sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) are investigated by composite analyses of 76 major warming events identified in a present day simulation performed with a coupled ocean-troposphere-stratosphere model from 299 winters. Their dynamical signatures are compared with the 17 SSW events identified from 35 years of Era-Interim data. The main difference is that, relative frequency of simulated SSW events is smaller than that obtained from reanalysis. SSW events are classified as displacement or split events based on the geopotential field values at 10 hPa. The geopotential field values identify 10 and 3 split events in simulation and observation respectively. The model quite accurately simulates some of the dynamical features associated with the major SSW. Residual mean circulation induced by EP-flux divergence, sum of advection and residual forcing are stronger in split events than in displacement type SSW has been confirmed by both simulation and observation. Moreover, the contribution of EP-flux divergence or planetary wave forcing is larger than the contribution of other types of forcing.

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