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Improved teleconnection between Arctic sea ice and the North Atlantic Oscillation through stochastic process representation.
| Title: | Improved teleconnection between Arctic sea ice and the North Atlantic Oscillation through stochastic process representation. |
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| Authors: | Strommen, Kristian, Juricke, Stephan, Cooper, Fenwick |
| Source: | Weather & Climate Dynamics; 2022, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p951-975, 25p |
| Abstract: | The extent to which interannual variability in Arctic sea ice influences the mid-latitude circulation has been extensively debated. While observational data support the existence of a teleconnection between November sea ice in the Barents–Kara region and the subsequent winter North Atlantic Oscillation, climate models do not consistently reproduce such a link, with only very weak inter-model consensus. We show, using the EC-Earth3 climate model, that while an ensemble of coupled EC-Earth3 simulations shows no evidence of such a teleconnection, the inclusion of stochastic parameterizations to the ocean and sea ice component results in the emergence of a robust teleconnection comparable in magnitude to that observed. While the exact mechanisms causing this remain unclear, we argue that it can be accounted for by an improved ice–ocean–atmosphere coupling due to the stochastic perturbations, which aim to represent the effect of unresolved ice and ocean variability. In particular, the weak inter-model consensus may to a large extent be due to model biases in surface coupling, with stochastic parameterizations being one possible remedy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Subject Terms: | SEA ice, TELECONNECTIONS (Climatology), NORTH Atlantic oscillation, STOCHASTIC processes, MODES of variability (Climatology) |
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| ISSN: | 26984008 |
| DOI: | 10.5194/wcd-3-951-2022 |
| Database: | Complementary Index |
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