This is a 4 month forecast of surface geopotential height anomalies (shown with surface relief and contour lines) and surface temperature anomalies (shown with a color gradient). The forecast starts on Dec 1, 1997, and goes through the end of March, 1998. It illustrates the negative North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) pattern that gets triggered by a stratospheric sudden warming.
Science
Jadwiga H. Richter, (NCAR);
Lantao Sun, (NOAA)
Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) is the atmospheric component of the Community Earth System Model (CESM). CESM is a global climate model that provides simulations of the Earth’s climate states. CESM is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Computing This research was enabled by NCAR’s Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) compute and storage resources.
Visualization
Tim Scheitlin and Matt Rehme (NCAR);
Special thanks to Mary Haley (NCAR)
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