Large-scale atmospheric response to warm SST anomalies in the North Pacific in the 2021-22 winter ...

• Main Authors: Nishii, Kazuaki, Taguchi, Bunmei, Nakamura, Hisashi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; Pacific
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.57757/iugg23-0277; https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5016188

<!--!introduction!--> Sea surface temperatures (SST) in the North Pacific were extremely warm in the 2021-22 winter associated with the negative phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). We investigate the large-scale atmospheric responses to the warm SST anomalies through ensemble time-slice experiments of an atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) with two different horizontal resolution settings: 100 km and 50 km. In both the 100-km and 50-km experiments, anticyclonic responses in the winter-mean 500-hPa geopotential height fields are found over the North Pacific. The anticyclonic response is stronger in the 50-km AGCM, and its center is located slightly to the west of that obtained in the 100-km AGCM. Blocking frequency over the North Pacific in the 50-km AGCM is significantly increased under the influence of the warm SST anomalies, which may cool the lower stratosphere in the Arctic through suppressing upward planetary-wave propagation from the troposphere. Such increased blocking and ... : The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023) ...