Study of Regional Volcanic Impact on the Middle East and North Africa using high-resolution global and regional models
High-latitude winter warming after strong equatorial volcanic eruptions caused by circulation changes associated with the anomalously positive phase of Arctic Oscillation is a subject of active research during recent decade. But severe winter cooling in the Middle East observed after the Mt. Pinatub...
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ftkingabdullahun:oai:repository.kaust.edu.sa:10754/629486 2023-12-31T10:03:36+01:00 Study of Regional Volcanic Impact on the Middle East and North Africa using high-resolution global and regional models Osipov, Sergey Dogar, Muhammad Mubashar Stenchikov, Georgiy L. Earth Science and Engineering Program Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division 2016-04 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10754/629486 unknown http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016EGUGA.18.8617O http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/EGU2016-8617.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10754/629486 Presentation 2016 ftkingabdullahun 2023-12-02T20:18:40Z High-latitude winter warming after strong equatorial volcanic eruptions caused by circulation changes associated with the anomalously positive phase of Arctic Oscillation is a subject of active research during recent decade. But severe winter cooling in the Middle East observed after the Mt. Pinatubo eruption of 1991, although recognized, was not thoroughly investigated. These severe regional climate perturbations in the Middle East cannot be explained by solely radiative volcanic cooling, which suggests that a contribution of forced circulation changes could be important and significant. To better understand the mechanisms of the Middle East climate response and evaluate the contributions of dynamic and radiative effects we conducted a comparative study using Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory global High Resolution Atmospheric Model (HiRAM) with the effectively "regional-model-resolution" of 25-km and the regional Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model focusing on the eruption of Mount Pinatubo on June 15, 1991 followed by a pronounced positive phase of the Arctic Oscillation. The WRF model has been configured over the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The WRF code has been modified to interactively account for the radiative effect of volcanic aerosols. Both HiRAM and WRF capture the main features of the MENA climate response and show that in winter the dynamic effects in the Middle East prevail the direct radiative cooling from volcanic aerosols. Conference Object Arctic King Abdullah University of Science and Technology: KAUST Repository |
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High-latitude winter warming after strong equatorial volcanic eruptions caused by circulation changes associated with the anomalously positive phase of Arctic Oscillation is a subject of active research during recent decade. But severe winter cooling in the Middle East observed after the Mt. Pinatubo eruption of 1991, although recognized, was not thoroughly investigated. These severe regional climate perturbations in the Middle East cannot be explained by solely radiative volcanic cooling, which suggests that a contribution of forced circulation changes could be important and significant. To better understand the mechanisms of the Middle East climate response and evaluate the contributions of dynamic and radiative effects we conducted a comparative study using Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory global High Resolution Atmospheric Model (HiRAM) with the effectively "regional-model-resolution" of 25-km and the regional Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model focusing on the eruption of Mount Pinatubo on June 15, 1991 followed by a pronounced positive phase of the Arctic Oscillation. The WRF model has been configured over the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The WRF code has been modified to interactively account for the radiative effect of volcanic aerosols. Both HiRAM and WRF capture the main features of the MENA climate response and show that in winter the dynamic effects in the Middle East prevail the direct radiative cooling from volcanic aerosols. |
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Osipov, Sergey Dogar, Muhammad Mubashar Stenchikov, Georgiy L. Study of Regional Volcanic Impact on the Middle East and North Africa using high-resolution global and regional models |
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Study of Regional Volcanic Impact on the Middle East and North Africa using high-resolution global and regional models |
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Study of Regional Volcanic Impact on the Middle East and North Africa using high-resolution global and regional models |
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Study of Regional Volcanic Impact on the Middle East and North Africa using high-resolution global and regional models |
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Study of Regional Volcanic Impact on the Middle East and North Africa using high-resolution global and regional models |
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Study of Regional Volcanic Impact on the Middle East and North Africa using high-resolution global and regional models |
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study of regional volcanic impact on the middle east and north africa using high-resolution global and regional models |
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