The Impacts of Global Scale Climate Variations on Southwest Asia

We have examined the impacts of global scale intraseasonal and interannual climate variations on Southwest Asia (SWA). The variations of primary interest are El Nino-La Nina (ENLN) the Indian Ocean Zonal Mode (IOZM) the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). The im...

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Main Author: Vorhees, Damon C.
Other Authors: NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2006
Subjects:
Meteorology
*TEMPERATURE
*PRECIPITATION
*CLIMATOLOGY
*SOUTHWEST ASIA
DATA BASES
GLOBAL
IMPACT
THESES
TROPICAL REGIONS
OSCILLATION
SUBTROPICAL REGIONS
INDIAN OCEAN
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
CIRCULATION
MOISTURE
PACIFIC OCEAN
CONVERGENCE
REGIONS
PREDICTIONS
ENVIRONMENTS
ANOMALIES
EL NINO
LA NINA
NCEP(NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION)
Indian
Pacific
North Atlantic
North Atlantic oscillation
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA445302
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA445302
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Summary:We have examined the impacts of global scale intraseasonal and interannual climate variations on Southwest Asia (SWA). The variations of primary interest are El Nino-La Nina (ENLN) the Indian Ocean Zonal Mode (IOZM) the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). The impacts of primary interest are on fall-winter precipitation and temperature in SWA and associated lower and upper level circulation anomalies in the eastern hemisphere. Our primary data sets are National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reanalysis fields and indices of ENLN IOZM MJO and NAO activity. We have identified several upper and lower level circulation anomaly patterns that are directly linked to both the primary climate variations and to anomalous precipitation and temperature in SWA. The circulation anomalies associated with these SWA anomalies are similar for ENLN IOZM MJO and NAO periods. For the tropical climate variations1 the mechanisms for these circulation anomalies involve equatorial Rossby-Kelvin wave dynamics and related alterations of the southwesterly and northeasterly monsoon flows tropical easterly jet and subtropical jet in northeast Africa and SWA and the tropical Africa - Indian Ocean - western tropical Pacific region. Much of the impact on precipitation occurs through: (1) anomalous moisture advection over the tropical northwest Indian Ocean and tropical and subtropical North Africa; and (2) anomalous moisture convergence over SWA. The original document contains color images.

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