Ignacio Deza Ignacio.Deza@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Lecturer - CATE - CCT - UCCT0001
Distinguishing the effects of internal and forced atmospheric variability in climate networks
Deza, J. Ignacio; Masoller, Cristina; Barreiro, Marcelo
Authors
Cristina Masoller
Marcelo Barreiro
Abstract
The fact that the climate on the earth is a highly complex dynamical system is well-known. In the last few decades great deal of effort has been focused on understanding how climate phenomena in one geographical region affects the climate of other regions. Complex networks are a powerful framework for identifying climate interdependencies. To further exploit the knowledge of the links uncovered via the network analysis (for, e.g., improvements in prediction), a good understanding of the physical mechanisms underlying these links is required. Here we focus on understanding the role of atmospheric variability, and construct climate networks representing internal and forced variability using the output of an ensemble of AGCM runs. A main strength of our work is that we construct the networks using MIOP (mutual information computed from ordinal patterns), which allows the separation of intraseasonal, intra-annual and interannual timescales. This gives further insight to the analysis of climatological data. The connectivity of these networks allows us to assess the influence of two main indices, NINO3.4 – one of the indices used to describe ENSO (El Niño–Southern oscillation) – and of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), by calculating the networks from time series where these indices were linearly removed. A main result of our analysis is that the connectivity of the forced variability network is heavily affected by "El Niño": removing the NINO3.4 index yields a general loss of connectivity; even teleconnections between regions far away from the equatorial Pacific Ocean are lost, suggesting that these regions are not directly linked, but rather, are indirectly interconnected via El Niño, particularly at interannual timescales. On the contrary, on the internal variability network – independent of sea surface temperature (SST) forcing – the links connecting the Labrador Sea with the rest of the world are found to be significantly affected by NAO, with a maximum at intra-annual timescales. While the strongest non-local links found are those forced by the ocean, the presence of teleconnections due to internal atmospheric variability is also shown.
Citation
Deza, J. I., Masoller, C., & Barreiro, M. (2014). Distinguishing the effects of internal and forced atmospheric variability in climate networks. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 21(3), 617-631. https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-21-617-2014
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Mar 20, 2014 |
Online Publication Date | May 26, 2014 |
Publication Date | May 26, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Feb 25, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 28, 2022 |
Journal | Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics |
Print ISSN | 1023-5809 |
Electronic ISSN | 1607-7946 |
Publisher | American Geophysical Union |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 21 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 617-631 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-21-617-2014 |
Keywords | Information Theory, Climate science |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9047961 |
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