Publication Date:
2017-01-18
Description:
In this work, we evaluate the impact of terminated oceanic heat flux in the North Atlantic and Barents Sea on the Northern Hemisphere climate in January by numerical experiments with a coupled model of atmospheric general circulation and a thermodynamic model of the upper mixed layer of the ocean. We analyze the variations in the atmospheric circulation and near-surface temperature. We found that the termination of the oceanic heat flux leads to a depression in atmospheric centers of action in the Northern Hemisphere (by 3-5 hPa) and a significant cooling over the continents with the strongest temperature decrease down to -10 degrees C in northwestern Eurasia.
Type:
Article
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PeerReviewed
Format:
text
DOI:
10.1134/S1028334X12080181
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