Wintertime Iberian Peninsula Precipitation Variability and its Relation to North Atlantic Atmospheric Circulation

  1. González-Rouco, Jesús Fidel 1
  2. Valero Rodríguez, Francisco 1
  3. Martín, María Luisa 1
  4. Luna Rico, M. Yolanda 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

Libro:
Detecting and Modelling Regional Climate Change
  1. López Bonillo, Diego (coord.)
  2. Brunet India, Manola (coord.)

Editorial: Springer, 2001

ISBN: 9783540422396

Año de publicación: 2001

Páginas: 369-376

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

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Resumen

To isolate the physical mechanism responsible for the relationship between North Atlantic large-scale circulation and precipitation amounts over Western Europe, a singular value decomposition (SVD) has been performed. This analysis is applied to a 30-winter dataset consisting of both monthly mean precipitation anomalies in Iberia and monthly mean 500 hPa geopotential height anomalies over the North Atlantic Ocean. The SVD analysis yields three significant pairs of patterns that account for 93% of the squared covariance between the two fields. This great amount of covariance indicates the strong coupling between large-scale circulation described by the 500 hPa height anomalies and the regional precipitation in the Iberian Peninsula.

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