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- Title
Influence of sea surface temperature on the European heat wave of 2003 summer. Part II: a modeling study.
- Authors
Feudale, Laura; Shukla, Jagadish
- Abstract
The Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies Atmospheric General Circulation Model is used to investigate the role of global boundary conditions of sea surface temperature (SST) in the establishment and maintenance of the European heat wave of 2003 summer. It is found that the global SST anomalies can explain many major features of the European heat wave during the summer of 2003. A further experiment has investigated the role of SST outside the Mediterranean area. This supplements the results of a previous study where the role of warm Mediterranean SST was analyzed. The results suggest that the SST anomalies had an additional effect of reducing the baroclinicity in the European area reinforcing the blocking circulation and helping to create ideal conditions for the establishment of the heat wave.
- Subjects
OCEAN temperature; HEAT waves (Meteorology); SUMMER; ATMOSPHERIC circulation; ATMOSPHERIC models; BOUNDARY value problems; BLOCKING (Meteorology)
- Publication
Climate Dynamics, 2011, Vol 36, Issue 9/10, p1705
- ISSN
0930-7575
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00382-010-0789-z