@Article{AmbrizziKayaStep:1998:CoGlTr,
author = "Ambrizzi, T. and Kayano, Mary T. and Stephenson, D. B.",
affiliation = "{Department of Atmospheric Sciences} and Instituto Nacional de
Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Centro de Previs{\~a}o de Tempo e
Estudos Clim{\'a}ticos (CPTEC) and {Met{'e}o-France}",
title = "A comparison of global tropospheric teleconnections using observed
satellite and general circulation model total ozone column data
for 1979–91",
journal = "Climate Dynamics",
year = "1998",
volume = "14",
number = "2",
pages = "133--150",
month = "feb.",
keywords = "northern-hemisphere winter, nino-southern oscillation, sea-surface
temperature, 500-MB height fluctuations, quasi-biennial
oscillation, low-frequency variability, rossby-wave propagation,
short-time scales, El-Nino, interannual variability.",
abstract = "The total ozone column is well correlated with tropospheric fields
such as the heights of the upper tropospheric geopotential
surfaces and thus it can provide useful information on temporal
variability in the troposphere. The global availability of long
period satellite measurements of the total ozone column, taken by
the TOMS instruments since 1978, provides a valuable and
independent data set for use in studies of seasonal and
interannual climate variability. In this study, the global
low-frequency seasonal teleconnections in the observed TOMS data
from 1979-91 have been investigated using seasonal
teleconnectivity maps and empirical orthogonal function analysis.
They have also been compared with the results from a simulation
made with the atmospheric GCM at Meteo-France, having prescribed
observed sea surface temperatures for the same period. In the
observed total ozone, strong ENSO-related wave number one
longitudinal dipole patterns are seen in both the tropics and in
the Southern Hemisphere extratropics. The model shows much weaker
variability in total ozone yet appears to be able to capture
similar teleconnection patterns in the tropics related to ENSO. In
the SH extratropics, the model total ozone shows a strong wave
number 3 response rather than the wave number one dipole seen in
the observations. A wave number 3 response is also evident in the
200 hPa geopotential height simulated by the model and in the NCEP
analysis, and is consistent with the response in a linearised
barotropic model forced in the Indonesian region. The different
responses in the modelled and observed total ozone, suggest that
tropopause effect is not the major factor in the SH extratropics,
and it is likely that horizontal ozone transport also plays a role
in this region. Despite a generally poor simulation of the zonal
mean total ozone, the model was able to capture the anomalous
strengthening of the SH stationary waves during austral spring of
1988, related to an intense stratosphere sudden warming.",
copyholder = "SID/SCD",
issn = "0930-7575",
label = "self-archiving-INPE-MCTIC-GOV-BR",
language = "en",
targetfile = "Ambrizzi.Comparison.pdf",
url = "http://www.springerlink.com/media/B0CYHCRGLH6QX02G9M7J/Contributions/D/A/J/L/DAJL6878Y7NWY12N.pdf",
urlaccessdate = "2025, Jan. 15"
}