Remote forcing associated with El Nino and Arctic warming are two mechanisms capable of producing variability in the mid-latitude climate of the Northern Hemisphere. Such variability can give rise to abnormal and extreme events in mid-latitudes.
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Remote forcing associated with El Nino and Arctic warming are two mechanisms capable of producing variability in the mid-latitude climate of the Northern Hemisphere. Such variability can give rise to abnormal and extreme events in mid-latitudes.
The center of the warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs) associated with El Nino has shifted from the tropical Eastern Pacific (EP) to tropical Central Pacific (CP) during the most recent two to three decades. This dissertation finds this shift ha.
Arctic warming began to accelerate in the early 1990s, resulting in an increase in the importance of Arctic forcing on the mid-latitude climate variability. This dissertation also demonstrates how changing Arctic conditions affect the inter-basi.
The findings of this dissertation contribute to a better understanding of how the forcing of mid-latitude climate variability has changed in recent decades and of the relative importance of the tropical Pacific (i.e., El Nino) and Arctic (i.e..