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DOI | 10.1002/joc.6178 |
Atmospheric drivers of winter above-freezing temperatures and associated rainfall in western Canada | |
Newton, Brandi W.1,2; Bonsal, Barrie R.3; Edwards, Thomas W. D.4; Prowse, Terry D.1,5; McGregor, Glenn R.6 | |
2019-12-01 | |
发表期刊 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
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ISSN | 0899-8418 |
EISSN | 1097-0088 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 39期号:15页码:5655-5671 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Canada; England |
英文摘要 | Winter thaw episodes, especially when accompanied by rain, can significantly deplete the winter snowpack, which is a critical water storage component in the mountainous headwater regions of the major river basins of western Canada. Here we identify the characteristic synoptic-scale mid-tropospheric atmospheric circulation regimes that tend to foster such extreme hydrologic events using self-organizing map analysis of meteorological reanalysis data from 1949 to 2012. Daily winter 500hPa geopotential height fields over the Pacific Ocean and western Canada are classified into 12 dominant synoptic types, for which conditional probabilities of above-freezing temperatures and rainfall are then calculated and mapped using daily high-resolution gridded data. Results show that above-freezing surface air temperatures and rain events in winter are commonly associated with the occurrence of a ridge of high pressure over western Canada, which induces southwesterly advection of relatively warm, moist maritime air masses into the continental interior, and that the intensity and spatial footprint of the surface climate response is related to the strength and position of the ridge. Conversely, the development of a ridge of high pressure over the Pacific Ocean and adjacent trough of low pressure over western Canada, which favours northwesterly to westerly mid-tropospheric flow over the continental interior in winter, tends to suppress the occurrence of above-freezing temperatures and rain. The synoptic type most strongly associated with winter thaw and rain events underwent a statistically significant step-change increase in mean frequency in 1977, accompanied by a corresponding step-change decrease in the frequency of the dominant synoptic type depicting westerly (zonal) circulation, coinciding with a well-documented shift to a positive phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. |
英文关键词 | above-freezing temperatures conditional probability self-organizing maps snowmelt synoptic climatology Western Canada winter rainfall winter thaw |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000500004200007 |
WOS关键词 | FREQUENCY VARIABILITY MODES ; HYDRO-CLIMATIC VARIABILITY ; SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS ; PEACE RIVER-BASIN ; BRITISH-COLUMBIA ; ROCKY-MOUNTAINS ; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS ; HYDROCLIMATIC VARIABLES ; SYNOPTIC CLIMATOLOGY ; PRECIPITATION PHASE |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/225490 |
专题 | 环境与发展全球科技态势 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Victoria, Dept Geog, Victoria, BC, Canada; 2.Alberta Environm & Pk, Environm Monitoring & Sci Div, 3535 Res Rd NW, Calgary, AB T2L 2K8, Canada; 3.Environm & Climate Change Canada, Natl Hydrol Res Ctr, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; 4.Univ Waterloo, Earth & Environm Sci, Waterloo, ON, Canada; 5.Univ Victoria, Environm & Climate Change Canada, Water & Climate Impacts Res Ctr, Victoria, BC, Canada; 6.Univ Durham, Dept Geog, Durham, England |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Newton, Brandi W.,Bonsal, Barrie R.,Edwards, Thomas W. D.,et al. Atmospheric drivers of winter above-freezing temperatures and associated rainfall in western Canada[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY,2019,39(15):5655-5671. |
APA | Newton, Brandi W.,Bonsal, Barrie R.,Edwards, Thomas W. D.,Prowse, Terry D.,&McGregor, Glenn R..(2019).Atmospheric drivers of winter above-freezing temperatures and associated rainfall in western Canada.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY,39(15),5655-5671. |
MLA | Newton, Brandi W.,et al."Atmospheric drivers of winter above-freezing temperatures and associated rainfall in western Canada".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY 39.15(2019):5655-5671. |
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