On the role of atmospheric teleconnections in climate

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Abstract

In a recent application of networks to 500-hPa data, it was found that supernodes in the network correspond to major teleconnection. More specifically, in the Northern Hemisphere a set of supernodes coincides with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and another set is located in the area where the Pacific-North American (PNA) and the tropical Northern Hamisphere (TNH) patterns are found. It was subsequently suggested that the presence of atmospheric teleconnections make climate more stable and more efficient in transferring information. Here this hypothesis is tested by examining the topology of the complete network as well as of the networks without teleconnections. It is found that indeed without teleconnections the network becomes less stable and less efficient in transferring information. It was also found that the pattern chiefly responsible for this mechanism in the extratropics is the NAO. The other patterns are simply a linear response of the activity in the tropics and their role in this mechanism is inconsequential. © 2008 American Meteorological Society.

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Tsonis, A. A., Swanson, K. L., & Wang, G. (2008). On the role of atmospheric teleconnections in climate. Journal of Climate, 21(12), 2990–3001. https://doi.org/10.1175/2007JCLI1907.1

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