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Author (up) Brolley, J. M.
Title Effects of ENSO, NAO (PVO), and PDO on Monthly Extreme Temperatures and Precipitation Type $loc['typeManuscript']
Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords NAO, PDO, ENSO, Climate Variability, Extremes, Stochastic
Abstract The El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), and the Polar Vortex Oscillation (PVO) produce conditions favorable for monthly extreme temperatures and precipitation. These climate modes produce upper-level teleconnection patterns that favor regional droughts, floods, heat waves, and cold spells, and these extremes impact agriculture, energy, forestry, and transportation. The above sectors prefer the knowledge of the worst (and sometimes the best) case scenarios. This study examines the extreme scenarios for each phase and the combination of phases that produce the greatest monthly extremes. Data from Canada, Mexico, and the United States are gathered from the Historical Climatology Network (HCN). Monthly data are simulated by the utilization of a Monte Carlo model. This Monte Carlo method simulates monthly data by the stochastic selection of daily data with identical ENSO, PDO, and PVO (NAO) characteristics. In order to test the quality of the Monte Carlo simulation, the simulations are compared with the observations using only PDO and PVO. It has been found that temperatures and precipitation in the simulation are similar to the model. Statistics tests have favored similarities between simulations and observations in most cases. Daily data are selected in blocks of four to eight days in order to conserve temporal correlation. Because the polar vortex occurs only during the cold season, the PVO is used during January, and the NAO is used during other months. The simulated data are arranged, and the tenth and ninetieth percentiles are analyzed. The magnitudes of temperature and precipitation anomalies are the greatest in the western Canada and the southeastern United States during winter, and these anomalies are located near the Pacific North American (PNA) extrema. Western Canada has its coldest (warmest) Januaries when the PDO and PVO are low (high). The southeastern United States has its coldest Januaries with high PDO and low PVO and warmest Januaries with low PDO and high PVO. Although extremes occur during El Nino or La Nina, many stations have the highest or lowest temperatures during neutral ENSO. In California and the Gulf Coast, the driest (wettest) Januaries tend to occur during low (high) PDO, and the reverse occurs in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. Summertime anomalies, on the other hand, are weak because temperature variance is low. Phase combinations that form the wettest (driest) Julies form spatially incoherent patterns. The magnitudes of the temperature and precipitation anomalies and the corresponding phase combinations vary regionally and seasonally. Composite maps of geopotential heights across North America are plot for low, median, and high temperatures at six selected sites and for low, median, and high precipitation at the same sites. The greatest fluctuations occur near the six sites and over some of the loci of the PNA pattern. Geopotential heights tend to decrease (increase) over the target stations during the cold (warm) cases, and the results for precipitation are variable.
Address Department of Meteorology
Corporate Author Thesis $loc['Ph.D. thesis']
Publisher Florida State University Place of Publication Tallahassee, FL Editor
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Call Number COAPS @ mfield @ Serial 587
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Author (up) Lim, Y.-K.; Cocke, S.; Shin, D.W.; Schoof, J.T.; LaRow, T.E.; O'Brien, J.J.
Title Downscaling large-scale NCEP CFS to resolve fine-scale seasonal precipitation and extremes for the crop growing seasons over the southeastern United States Type $loc['typeJournal Article']
Year 2010 Publication Climate Dynamics Abbreviated Journal Clim Dyn
Volume 35 Issue 2-3 Pages 449-471
Keywords Downscaling; Precipitation; Regional climate; Prediction; Extremes
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ISSN 0930-7575 ISBN Medium
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Call Number COAPS @ mfield @ Serial 364
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Author (up) Qian, C.; Yan, Z.; Wu, Z.; Fu, C.; Tu, K.
Title Trends in temperature extremes in association with weather-intraseasonal fluctuations in eastern China Type $loc['typeJournal Article']
Year 2011 Publication Advances in Atmospheric Sciences Abbreviated Journal Adv. Atmos. Sci.
Volume 28 Issue 2 Pages 297-309
Keywords climate extremes; EEMD; weather-intraseasonal fluctuations; modulated annual cycle; global warming
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ISSN 0256-1530 ISBN Medium
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Call Number COAPS @ mfield @ Serial 310
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Author (up) Sura, P.
Title A general perspective of extreme events in weather and climate Type $loc['typeJournal Article']
Year 2011 Publication Atmospheric Research Abbreviated Journal Atmospheric Research
Volume 101 Issue 1-2 Pages 1-21
Keywords Weather and climate extremes; Stochastic modeling; Weather and climate statistics
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ISSN 0169-8095 ISBN Medium
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Call Number COAPS @ mfield @ Serial 302
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