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https://hdl.handle.net/2115/65199

On the atmospheric response experiment to a Blue Arctic Ocean

英語

stratosphere-troposphere coupling

2016-10

American Geophysical Union

Geophysical research letters

43(19)

10394-10402

We demonstrated atmospheric responses to a reduction in Arctic sea ice via simulations in which Arctic sea ice decreased stepwise from the present-day range to an ice-free range. In all cases, the tropospheric response exhibited a negative Arctic Oscillation (AO)-like pattern. An intensification of the climatological planetary-scale wave due to the present-day sea ice reduction on the Atlantic side of the Arctic Ocean induced stratospheric polar vortex weakening and the subsequent negative AO. Conversely, strong Arctic warming due to ice-free conditions across the entire Arctic Ocean induced a weakening of the tropospheric westerlies corresponding to a negative AO without troposphere-stratosphere coupling, for which the planetary-scale wave response to a surface heat source extending to the Pacific side of the Arctic Ocean was responsible. Because the resultant negative AO-like response was accompanied by secondary circulation in the meridional plane, atmospheric heat transport into the Arctic increased, accelerating the Arctic amplification.

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An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 2016 American Geophysical Union.Tetsu Nakamura , Koji Yamazaki, Meiji Honda, Jinro Ukita, Ralf Jaiser, Dörthe Handorf,and Klaus Dethloff, （2016), On the atmospheric response experiment to a Blue Arctic Ocean, Geophygical Research Letters, 43, 10394-10402, doi:10.1002/ 2016GL07052. To view the published open abstract, go to http://dx.doi.org and enter the DOI.

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