The Transient Atmospheric Response to Midlatitude SST Anomalies From: Journal of Climate | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: Frankignoul, Claude; Ferreira, David | Copyright American Meteorological Society Apr 1, 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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To study the transient atmospheric response to midlatitude SST anomalies, a three-layer quasigeostrophic (QG) model coupled to a slab oceanic mixed layer in the North Atlantic is used. As diagnosed from a coupled run in perpetual winter conditions, the first two modes of SST variability are linked to the model North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and eastern Atlantic pattern (EAP), respectively, the dominant atmospheric modes in the Atlantic sector. The two SST anomaly patterns ar...

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