Tropical origin of the severe European winter of 1962/63
A set of relaxation experiments using the ECMWF atmospheric model is used to analyse the severe European winter of 1962/63. We argue that the severe winter weather was associated with a wave train that originated in the tropical Pacific sector (where weak La Nina conditions were present) and was red...
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ftoceanrep:oai:oceanrep.geomar.de:23706 2023-05-15T17:33:00+02:00 Tropical origin of the severe European winter of 1962/63 Greatbatch, Richard John Gollan, Gereon Jung, T. Kunz, Torben 2015-01 text https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/23706/ https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/23706/1/greatbatch_gollan_jung_kunz15.pdf https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2346 en eng Royal Meteorological Society https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/23706/1/greatbatch_gollan_jung_kunz15.pdf Greatbatch, R. J. , Gollan, G. , Jung, T. and Kunz, T. (2015) Tropical origin of the severe European winter of 1962/63. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 141 . pp. 153-165. DOI 10.1002/qj.2346 <https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2346>. doi:10.1002/qj.2346 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Article PeerReviewed 2015 ftoceanrep https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2346 2023-04-07T15:12:36Z A set of relaxation experiments using the ECMWF atmospheric model is used to analyse the severe European winter of 1962/63. We argue that the severe winter weather was associated with a wave train that originated in the tropical Pacific sector (where weak La Nina conditions were present) and was redirected towards Europe, a process we suggest was influenced by the combined effect of the strong easterly phase of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO ) and unusually strong easterly winds in the upper equatorial troposphere that winter. A weak tendency towards negative North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) conditions in December, associated with extratropical sea surface temperature and sea-ice anomalies, might have acted as a favourable preconditioning. The redirection of the wave train towards Europe culminated in the stratospheric sudden warming at the end of January 1963. We argue that in February, the sudden warming event helped maintain the negative NAO regime, allowing the severe weather to persist for a further month. A possible influence from the Madden-Julian Oscillation, as well as a role for internal atmospheric variability, is noted. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation Sea ice OceanRep (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre für Ocean Research Kiel) Pacific Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 141 686 153 165 |
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A set of relaxation experiments using the ECMWF atmospheric model is used to analyse the severe European winter of 1962/63. We argue that the severe winter weather was associated with a wave train that originated in the tropical Pacific sector (where weak La Nina conditions were present) and was redirected towards Europe, a process we suggest was influenced by the combined effect of the strong easterly phase of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO ) and unusually strong easterly winds in the upper equatorial troposphere that winter. A weak tendency towards negative North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) conditions in December, associated with extratropical sea surface temperature and sea-ice anomalies, might have acted as a favourable preconditioning. The redirection of the wave train towards Europe culminated in the stratospheric sudden warming at the end of January 1963. We argue that in February, the sudden warming event helped maintain the negative NAO regime, allowing the severe weather to persist for a further month. A possible influence from the Madden-Julian Oscillation, as well as a role for internal atmospheric variability, is noted. |
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Tropical origin of the severe European winter of 1962/63 |
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Tropical origin of the severe European winter of 1962/63 |
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https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/23706/1/greatbatch_gollan_jung_kunz15.pdf Greatbatch, R. J. , Gollan, G. , Jung, T. and Kunz, T. (2015) Tropical origin of the severe European winter of 1962/63. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 141 . pp. 153-165. DOI 10.1002/qj.2346 <https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2346>. doi:10.1002/qj.2346 |
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