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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 35, 期 15, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034010
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- JAMSTEC
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology [18204044]
- Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Observations indicate that midlatitude weather systems are organized into storm tracks'' near oceanic frontal zones with pronounced sea-surface temperature (SST) gradients. A pair of atmospheric general circulation model experiments with zonally uniform SST profiles prescribed show that their observed collocation is not fortuitous. In one experiment, a storm track is anchored around a midlatitude SST front that maintains near-surface thermal gradients and energizes eddies. Westerly momentum transport by eddies produces a well-defined polar-front jet along the front, even in winter when a subtropical jet stream intensifies. In the other experiment, removal of the SST front leads to a substantial weakening in eddy activity and the PFJ especially in winter. It also leads to a weakening of the annular mode-the dominant mode of westerly-jet variability-and its notable structural distortion in winter. Though idealized, our experiments suggest the importance of midlatitude oceanic fronts for the tropospheric circulation and its variability.
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