NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE Comments on ‘‘Northern Hemisphere Teleconnection Patterns during Extreme Phases of the Zonal-Mean Circulation’’

• Main Authors: J. M. Wallace, David W. J. Thompson
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Arctic; Kidson
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.623.4812; http://www.atmos.colostate.edu/ao/ThompsonPapers/WallaceThompsonFang.pdf

In a recent article published in this journal, Ting et al. (1996) documented the three-dimensional structure of the stationary wave response to a distinctive mode of variability of the zonally averaged basic state: a me-ridional ‘‘see-saw’ ’ in zonal momentum represented by the algebraic difference...