Affiliation:
1. State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science College of Ocean and Earth Sciences Xiamen University Xiamen China
2. Key Laboratory of Geoscience Big Data and Deep Resource of Zhejiang Province School of Earth Sciences Zhejiang University Hangzhou China
3. Nicholas School of the Environment Duke University Durham NC USA
Abstract
AbstractThis paper revealed a physical connection between the antiphase variation in the preceding autumn Tibetan Plateau (TP) and Lake Baikal snow cover anomalies (TBSA) and the following winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) on interannual time scales during 1979–2021. The antiphase variation in TBSA, accounting for 44% of the total years, has a dipole structure in autumn, which prolonged into the following winter. The persistent antiphase TBSA associated diabatic forcing, disturbances and transient eddies favor a double wave train structure spanning the TP (east of Baikal) and North Atlantic from autumn to winter. Amid the wave train, the circulation anomalies over the North Atlantic extract more energy from the basic flow due to the seasonal increase in the westerly jet, which further evolves into the winter NAO pattern. Our results provide new insights into the formation and projection of winter NAO from the perspective of subtropical and extratropical Eurasia snow.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Publisher
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,Geophysics