The Role of Standing Waves in Driving Persistent Anomalies of Upward Wave Activity Flux
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Abstract
Abstract Northern Hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex strength variability is known to be largely driven by persistent anomalies in upward wave activity flux. It has also been shown that attenuation and amplification of the stationary wave is the primary way in which wave activity flux varies. This study determines the structure of the wave anomalies that interfere with the climatological wave and drive this variability. Using a recently developed spectral decomposition it is shown that fixed-node standing waves are the primary drivers of the “linear interference” phenomenon. This is particularly true for the low-frequency component of the upward wave activity flux. The linear part of the flux is shown to be more persistent than the total flux and has significant tropospheric standing wave precursors that lead changes in the strength of the stratospheric polar vortex. Evidence is presented that current-generation high-top climate models are able to credibly simulate this variability in wave activity fluxes and the connection to polar vortex strength. Finally, the precursors to displacement and split sudden stratospheric warmings are examined. Displacement events are found to be preceded by about 25 days of anomalously high upward wave activity flux forced by standing waves amplifying the climatology. Split events have more short-lived wave activity flux precursors, which are dominated by the nonlinear part of the flux.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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