Analyses of global climate from measurements dating back to the nineteenth century show an «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» (AMO) as a leading large - scale pattern of
multidecadal variability in surface temperature.
«Recurring stratospheric vortex events create long - lived perturbations at the ocean surface, which penetrate into the deeper ocean and trigger
multidecadal variability in its circulation.
Can the Atlantic Ocean drive the observed
multidecadal variability in Northern Hemisphere mean temperature?
Multidecadal variability in methane concentrations throughout the LPIH is weakly correlated or uncorrelated with reconstructions of temperature and precipitation from a variety of geographic regions.
A significant component of unforced
multidecadal variability in the recent acceleration of global warming
The PDO does not represent
the multidecadal variability in the sea surface temperatures of the North Pacific.
Zhang, R., T. L. Delworth, and I. M. Held, 2007: Can the Atlantic Ocean drive the observed
multidecadal variability in Northern Hemisphere mean temperature?
A signal of persistent Atlantic
multidecadal variability in Arctic sea ice M.W. Miles et al. 2014.
DOES THE VIDEO AND DATA PRESENT MORE THAN
MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY IN GLOBAL SST ANOMALIES?
Micevski, T., Franks, S. W., Kuczera, G., 2006,
Multidecadal variability in coastal eastern Australian flood data, Journal of Hydrology, Volume 327, Issues 1 — 2, 30 July 2006, Pages 219 - 225, DOI: 10.1016 / j.jhydrol.2005.11.017
The differences between the quadratic acceleration numbers come from differences in the decadal to
multidecadal variability in the curves which I don't consider very robust (we have shown in Rahmstorf et al. 2012 how strongly these can be affected by a small amount of «noise» in the sea - level data).
Delworth, T.L., Mann, M.E., Observed and Simulated
Multidecadal Variability in the Northern Hemisphere, Climate Dynamics, 16, 661 - 676, 2000.
Nonetheless, even if the substantial recent trend in the AO pattern is simply a product of natural
multidecadal variability in North Atlantic climate, it underscores the fact that western and southern Greenland is an extremely poor place to look, from a signal vs. noise point of view, for the large - scale polar amplification signature of anthropogenic surface warming.
Delworth, T.L., and M.E. Mann, 2000: Observed and simulated
multidecadal variability in the Northern Hemisphere.
Nonetheless, even if the substantial recent trend in the AO pattern is simply a product of natural
multidecadal variability in North Atlantic climate, it underscores the fact that western and southern Greenland is an extremely poor place to look, from a signal vs. noise point of view, for the large - scale polar amplification signature of anthropogenic surface warming.
Not exact matches
The recent slowdown
in global temperature increase is consistent with internal Pacific and Atlantic
multidecadal variability.
Furthermore, since the end of the 19th century, we find an increasing variance
in multidecadal hydroclimatic winter and spring, and this coincides with an increase
in the
multidecadal North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)
variability, suggesting a significant influence of large - scale atmospheric circulation patterns.
However,
multidecadal NAO
variability has decreased
in summer.
Here we demonstrate that the multidcadal
variability in NHT including the recent warming hiatus is tied to the NAT - NAO - AMO - AMOC coupled mode and the NAO is implicated as a useful predictor of NHT
multidecadal variability.
Loggerhead juveniles disperse to regions whose climatic
variability is characterized (a)
in the North Atlantic by the Atlantic
Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and (b)
in the North Pacific by the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO).
Using simulations of the last millennium to understand climate
variability seen
in palaeo - observations: Similar variation of Iceland - Scotland overflow strength and Atlantic
Multidecadal Oscillation.
Multidecadal variability and the Inter Polar Gradient of atmospheric methane
in the late Holocene.
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Multidecadal variability of Atlantic tropical cyclone activity is observed to relate to the Atlantic
Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO)-- a mode manifesting primarily
in sea surface temperature (SST)
in the high latitudes of the North Atlantic.
In their paper Decadal Variations in the Global Atmospheric Land Temperatures, they find that the largest contributor to global average temperature variability on short (2 - 5 year) timescales in not the El Nino - Southern Oscillation (ENSO)(as everyone else believes), but is actually the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO
In their paper Decadal Variations
in the Global Atmospheric Land Temperatures, they find that the largest contributor to global average temperature variability on short (2 - 5 year) timescales in not the El Nino - Southern Oscillation (ENSO)(as everyone else believes), but is actually the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO
in the Global Atmospheric Land Temperatures, they find that the largest contributor to global average temperature
variability on short (2 - 5 year) timescales
in not the El Nino - Southern Oscillation (ENSO)(as everyone else believes), but is actually the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO
in not the El Nino - Southern Oscillation (ENSO)(as everyone else believes), but is actually the Atlantic
Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO).
Since the CMIP5 models used by the IPCC on average adequately reproduce observed global warming
in the last two and a half decades of the 20th century without any contribution from
multidecadal ocean
variability, it follows that those models (whose mean TCR is slightly over 1.8 °C) must be substantially too sensitive.
The 960 year carrier wave
variability can then be modulated — i.e shorter term forecasts can be then made by looking at and projecting forwards on top of the carrier wave the shorter term
multidecadal periodicities
in the PDO AMO etc..
Patterns of
variability that don't match the predicted fingerprints from the examined drivers (the «residuals») can be large — especially on short - time scales, and look
in most cases like the modes of internal
variability that we've been used to; ENSO / PDO, the North Atlantic
multidecadal oscillation etc..
In that case, one needs to use some technique for separating the
multidecadal variability from the long - term trend.
Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work
in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations
in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate
variability (the term «Atlantic
Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike
in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence
in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation
in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel
in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role
in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published
in Nature),
in showing how changes
in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO,
in examining the role of solar variations
in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work
in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).
We have many examples
in the simulations — lots of
multidecadal variability there.
This study uses several independent data sources to demonstrate that century - long warming around the northeast Pacific margins, like
multidecadal variability, can be primarily attributed to changes
in atmospheric circulation.
The historical
multidecadal - scale
variability in Atlantic hurricane activity is much greater than what would be «expected» from a gradual temperature increase attributed to global warming.
The community already knows that there is
multidecadal - scale
variability in North Atlantic temperatures.
Specifically, the claim was made that temperatures
in Churchill, Manitoba (close to the center of the Western Hudson Bay population of bears) had not risen, and that instead, any
multidecadal variations
in temperatures affecting the bears were related to the Arctic Oscillation (AO), a mode of natural
variability.
As noted
in that post, RealClimate defines the Atlantic
Multidecadal Oscillation («AMO») as, «A multidecadal (50 - 80 year timescale) pattern of North Atlantic ocean - atmosphere variability whose existence has been argued for based on statistical analyses of observational and proxy climate data, and coupled Atmosphere - Ocean General Circulation Model («AOGCM»)
Multidecadal Oscillation («AMO») as, «A
multidecadal (50 - 80 year timescale) pattern of North Atlantic ocean - atmosphere variability whose existence has been argued for based on statistical analyses of observational and proxy climate data, and coupled Atmosphere - Ocean General Circulation Model («AOGCM»)
multidecadal (50 - 80 year timescale) pattern of North Atlantic ocean - atmosphere
variability whose existence has been argued for based on statistical analyses of observational and proxy climate data, and coupled Atmosphere - Ocean General Circulation Model («AOGCM») simulations.
Kravtsov, S., M. G. Wyatt, J. A. Curry, and A. A. Tsonis, 2014: Two contrasting views of
multidecadal climate
variability in the twentieth century.
The thing is, it's not enough to look at a 10 year period
in isolation and I would certainly hesitate to draw conclusions about
multidecadal variability based on 10 years of data.
• There is strong evidence that the
multidecadal SAT
variability in the Atlantic (and globally) is driven (at least partly) by variations
in the MOC • A stochastic scenario is most plausible,
in which the ocean is driven by the low - frequency portion of the atmospheric
variability (NAO).
The one GT student that you have engaged, Angela Fritz, is a first year graduate student interested
in the intersection of climate change and policy (she is not taking the hurricane seminar, but is taking the
multidecadal climate
variability seminar).
In panel - b the magnitude of unforced variability is large (wide range between the blue lines) and thus changes in the multidecadal rate of warming could come about due to unforced variabilit
In panel - b the magnitude of unforced
variability is large (wide range between the blue lines) and thus changes
in the multidecadal rate of warming could come about due to unforced variabilit
in the
multidecadal rate of warming could come about due to unforced
variability.
As illustrated
in Figure 1 above from the 2011 paper Atmospheric Blocking and Atlantic
Multidecadal Ocean
Variability, the answer would be there has been no trend
in Greenland blocking days (estimates
in black and dark blue).
The ice
variability in these seas is dominated by a
multidecadal, low - frequency oscillation (LFO) and (to a lesser degree) by higher - frequency decadal fluctuations.
Clearly the higher frequencies dominate
in some indices, but the results have been pretty consistent with the
multidecadal variability being shared by all network indices.
The two studies to be discussed are: Atlantic
Multidecadal Oscillation and Northern Hemisphere's climate
variability (2012) and Role for Eurasian Arctic shelf sea ice
in a secularly varying hemispheric climate signal during the 20th century (2013)
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in global gridded temperature data» by J. Mikšovský et al.» «Atlantic and Pacific
multidecadal oscillations and Northern Hemisphere tempera
multidecadal oscillations and Northern Hemisphere temperatures»
Previous studies have found it to be well correlated with the low - frequency variations
in the North Atlantic sea surface temperature associated with the Atlantic
multidecadal variability (AMV).
- ARAMATE (The reconstruction of ecosystem and climate
variability in the north Atlantic region using annually resolved archives of marine and terrestrial ecosystems)- CLIM - ARCH-DATE (Integration of high resolution climate archives with archaeological and documentary evidence for the precise dating of maritime cultural and climatic events)- CLIVASH2k (Climate
variability in Antarctica and Southern Hemisphere
in the past 2000 years)- CoralHydro2k (Tropical ocean hydroclimate and temperature from coral archives)- Global T CFR (Global gridded temperature reconstruction method comparisons)- GMST reconstructions - Iso2k (A global synthesis of Common Era hydroclimate using water isotopes)- MULTICHRON (Constraining modeled
multidecadal climate
variability in the Atlantic using proxies derived from marine bivalve shells and coralline algae)- PALEOLINK (The missing link
in the Past — Downscaling paleoclimatic Earth System Models)- PSR2k (Proxy Surrogate Reconstruction 2k)
The observational and modeling results of the teleconnections linked to AMOC changes (including the dynamical response of vertical wind shear over the main development region of Atlantic hurricanes) suggest an important role of the AMOC
in the AMV and the
multidecadal variability of the Atlantic major hurricane frequency.
They found a 60 - to 90 - year cycle
in Barents and Greenland seas ice extent related to the Atlantic
Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO); the AMO is a basin - wide cycle of sea surface temperature
variability similar to the El Niño and La Niña cycles
in the Pacific, but varying over much longer periods.
For this, we evaluated the collective behavior of higher - frequency
variability of the residual signal
in the fifteen indices, from which the
multidecadal signal had been removed.