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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2353
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2353
19 Oct 2023
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WCD Ideas: Teleconnections through weather rather than stationary waves

Clemens Spensberger

Abstract. Conventionally, teleconnections in the atmosphere are described by correlations between monthly mean fields. These correlations are supposedly caused by stationary Rossby waves. The main hypothesis explored in this idea is that teleconnections are instead established by chains of events on synoptic time scales, that is by weather. Instead I hypothesise that non-stationary Rossby waves play an important role in establishing teleconnections. If these hypotheses are correct, much of the vast literature on this topic misses an essential part of the atmospheric dynamics leading to teleconnections.

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30 Apr 2024
WCD Ideas: Teleconnections through weather rather than stationary waves
Clemens Spensberger
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 659–669, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-659-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-659-2024, 2024
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It is well-established that variations in convection in the tropical Indo-Pacific can influence...
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