A New Rossby Wave–Breaking Interpretation of the North Atlantic Oscillation

By T. Woollings, B. Hoskins, M. Blackburn, P. Berrisford. 2008

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Extreme cyclone events in the Arctic: Wintertime variability and trends (2017, background): “A negative AO/NAO phase corresponds to thepresenceofmeanderedorblockedflows [Woollings et al 2008].”
Wave‐breaking characteristics of midlatitude blocking (2012, background): “Rennert and Wallace found that the negative polarity of the North Atlantic Oscillation with above-normal heights over Greenland was indeed associated with enhanced M variability over Greenland.”
Blocking and its Response to Climate Change (2018, background): “In doing so, the focus turns to Rossby wave breaking [93], which recognises blocking as a”
Associations between stratospheric variability and tropospheric blocking (2010, background): “[36] Blocking over Greenland results in flow anomalies resembling the negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), and in fact Woollings et al. [2008] suggested that much of the multiyear variability of the NAO is associated with variations in the occurrence of”
The Link between Rossby Wave Breakings and Weather Regime Transitions (2011, result): “These more frequent AWB events are consistent with the results on the positive phase of the NAO (e.g., Benedict et al. 2004).”
Variability of the North Atlantic eddy‐driven jet stream (2010, neutral): “Woollings et al. (2008) persistent than the 2-6 day transients in Figure 6, which bear many of the hallmarks of blocking.”
Responses of midlatitude blocks and wave amplitude to changes in the meridional temperature gradient in an idealized dry GCM (2014, background): “High-latitude blocks do not obstruct the jet but rather displace it equatorward [Berrisford et al., 2007; Woollings et al., 2008], and their identification as blocks is regarded as a weakness in indices that search all latitudes [Barnes et al., 2011] Figure 3.”
Dynamical feedbacks and the persistence of the NAO (2009, methodology): “Consistent with these results, Woollings et al. (2008, 2010) highlighted the robust nature of the wellknown negative skewness of the NAO time series.”
Tropospheric Rossby Wave Breaking and the NAO/NAM (2008, background): “A physical explanation for these strong statistical relationships was presented using a composite analysis of the sea level pressure anomalies, surface- and upper-tropospheric velocity fields, and zonal wind forcing associated with thousands of instances of anticyclonic and cyclonic RWB. Superimposi”
Aspects of a Northern Hemisphere Atmospheric Blocking Climatology (2008, methodology): “The European sector still stands out, but the focus of Woollings et al. (2008) is on the many wave-breaking events that are also found poleward of the oceanic jets and storm tracks, and their relationship to the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and Pacific variability.”
A methodology for the comparison of blocking climatologies across indices, models and climate scenarios (2012, methodology): “Woollings et al. (2008) and Berrisford et al. (2007) define a 2-dimensional blocking index according to (9) at all latitudes (forgoing a CBL) to investigate wave-breaking in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.”
Bidimensional Diagnostics, Variability, and Trends of Northern Hemisphere Blocking (2012, background): “More recently Woollings et al. (2008, 2010b) demonstrated in detail how the main components of the NAO can be interpreted in terms of the presence or absence of blocking over Greenland.”
A Review of the Role of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and Associated Climate Impacts (2019, background): “…of atmospheric blocking events (a quasi‐stationary high‐pressure system) over the Euro‐Atlantic region (Davini et al., 2012; Rimbu et al., 2014; Woollings et al., 2008, 2010) and the North Atlantic jet stream (Hurrell, 1995; Simpson et al., 2018), and AMV is positively correlated with…”
The relationship of winter season North Atlantic blocking frequencies to extreme cold or dry spells in the ERA-40 (2011, background): “Current studies deduce blocking climatologies and investigate their characteristics and connections to the mean flow (Sinclair, 1996; Shabbar et al., 2001; Pelly and Hoskins, 2003; Barriopedro et al., 2006; Scherrer et al., 2006; Croci-Maspoli et al., 2007; Woollings et al., 2008).”
Influence of blocking on Northern European and Western Russian heatwaves in large climate model ensembles (2018, methodology): “An additional spatio-temporal filtering following (Woollings et al 2008) is applied to select events of desired spatial scale and duration (see Anstey et al (2013) and supplementary information section B for further details available at stacks.iop.org/ERL/13/054015/mmedia).”
Simulating regime structures in weather and climate prediction models (2012, background): “…of the T1279 model configuration results from more realistic orography [Jung et al., 2012] and also from more realistic representation of nonlinear Rossby wave breaking processes, which are known to be important in maintaining persistent anomalies [Woollings et al., 2008; Masato et al., 2012].”
Extreme moisture transport into the Arctic linked to Rossby wave breaking (2014, background): “…have shown that RWB occurrence is closely linked to the latitude of the eddy-driven jet—AWB (CWB) tends to occur more frequently when the jet is shifted poleward (equatorward) and vice versa [e.g., Strong and Magnusdottir, 2008; Woollings et al., 2008; Rivière, 2011; Barnes and Hartmann, 2012].”