Dipole anomaly in the Arctic atmosphere and winter Arctic sea ice motion

作     者：WU Bingyi1, ZHANG Renhe1 & WANG Jia2 1. Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China 2. International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA 

作者机构：Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences Beijing China International Arctic Research Center University of Alaska Fairbanks USA 

出 版 物：《Science China Earth Sciences》 (中国科学（地球科学英文版）)

年 卷 期：2005年第48卷第9期

页      面：1529-1536页

核心收录：

学科分类：07[理学] 070601[理学-气象学] 0707[理学-海洋科学] 0706[理学-大气科学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.40475030 and 40225012) 

主　　题：dipole anomaly, winter season, Arctic, sea ice motion, sea ice export. 

摘      要：This paper investigates a previously-ignored atmospheric circulation anomaly-di- pole structure anomaly in the arctic atmosphere, and its relationship with the winter sea ice mo- tion, based on analyses of the International Arctic Buoy Programme Data (1979―1998) and datasets from the National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for the period of 1960―2002. The dipole structure anomaly is the second-leading mode of EOF of monthly mean SLP north of 70°N during the winter season (Oct.―Mar.), which accounts for 13% of the variance. One of its two anomaly centers is over the Canadian Archipelago; the other is situated over northern Eurasia and the Siberian marginal seas. Due to the dipole structure anomaly’s strong meridionality, it becomes an important mechanism to drive both anomalous sea ice export out of the Arctic Basin and cold air outbreaks into the Barents Sea, the Nordic Seas and northern Europe.