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Relationships Between Geopotential Heights And Temperature In The South-eastern Us During Wintertime Warming And Cooling Periods by KNAPP, PAUL A.; YIN, ZHI-YONG is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

This paper discusses the relationship between geopotential heights and mean winter surface temperature and the characteristics of interannual variability in the south-eastem USA during cooling and warming periods from 1946 to 1992. Data fkom 83 Historical Climatology Network stations in 12 south-eastem states were examined. Factor analysis was used to separate the southeast into three climatic regions. These regions were then matched with both 500 hPa and 700 hPa pressure heights during two periods: the 1946-1976 cooling period and the 1976-1992 warming period. The degree of association between geopotential heights and surface temperature was greater during the cooling period than during the warming period. Possible influences may lie with differential temperature modification effects of the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean, as well as soil moisture variability. The amount of geopotential height variability, as measured by standard deviations, was also compared between the cooling and warming periods, and was significantly greater during the cooling period. This explains a similar pattern in the surface temperature variability. A possible cause is the susceptibility of troughs to

Author

KNAPP, PAUL A.; YIN, ZHI-YONG

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0899-8418)

Published

1996

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)