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Relationship Between Weather Regimes and Atmospheric Rivers in East Antarctica

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AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2021JD035294

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atmospheric rivers; weather regimes; East Antarctica; temperature anomalies; snowfall amounts

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  1. French National Research Agency [ANR-20CE01-0013, ANR20-CE01-0013]

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Weather regimes in the East Antarctica-Southern Ocean sector were defined based on ERA5 reanalysis data from 1979 to 2018, showing short sequences influenced by the Southern Annular Mode. Intersections of regime occurrences with atmospheric rivers (ARs) revealed a concentration during regimes associated with atmospheric ridges/blockings, affecting climate variability in Antarctica significantly. Conditions favoring AR development include strong atmospheric ridges/blockings over the Southern Ocean, contributing to anomalous warm and humid conditions in coastal Antarctica.
Here, we define weather regimes in the East Antarctica-Southern Ocean sector based on daily anomalies of 700 hPa geopotential height derived from ERA5 reanalysis during 1979-2018. Most regimes and their preferred transitions depict synoptic-scale disturbances propagating eastwards off the Antarctic coastline. While regime sequences are generally short, their interannual variability is strongly driven by the polarity of the Southern Annular Mode (SAM). Regime occurrences are then intersected with atmospheric rivers (ARs) detected over the same region and period. ARs are equiprobable throughout the year, but clearly concentrate during regimes associated with a strong atmospheric ridges/blockings on the eastern part of the domain, which act to channel meridional advection of heat and moisture from the lower latitudes towards Antarctica. Both regimes and ARs significantly shape climate variability in Antarctica. Regimes favorable to AR occurrences are associated with anomalously warm and humid conditions in coastal Antarctica and, to a lesser extent, the hinterland parts of the Antarctic plateau. These anomalies are strongly enhanced during AR events, with warmer anomalies and dramatically amplified snowfall amounts. Large-scale conditions favoring AR development are finally explored. They show weak dependency to the SAM, but particularly strong atmospheric ridges/blockings over the Southern Ocean appear as the most favorable pattern, in which ARs can be embedded, and to which they contribute.

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