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Lixin Wu Physical Oceanography Laboratory Ocean University of China Qingdao, China Collaborators:

Atlantic-Pacific Teleconnection in Response to a weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Lixin Wu Physical Oceanography Laboratory Ocean University of China Qingdao, China Collaborators: Chun Li, Chunxue Yang, Changfang Fang, OUC Shang-Ping Xie, IPRC.

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Lixin Wu Physical Oceanography Laboratory Ocean University of China Qingdao, China Collaborators:

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  1. Atlantic-Pacific Teleconnection in Response to a weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Lixin Wu Physical Oceanography Laboratory Ocean University of China Qingdao, China Collaborators: Chun Li, Chunxue Yang, Changfang Fang, OUC Shang-Ping Xie, IPRC

  2. Atlantic-Pacific Extratropical and Tropical Teleconnection

  3. Winter(JFM) Geopotential Height H H L L H H Z850 Z250

  4. Surface Wind and Air Temp. Precipitation Mild and Wet Winter

  5. Early Winter (OND) Atmospheric Response L H L Z850 Z250

  6. FOAM Experiment (Lixin Wu, Feng He and Zhengyu Liu, 2005, GRL)

  7. Tropical Atlantic-Pacific Bridge FMA JJA OND

  8. South Atlantic Forcing FMA JJA OND

  9. Predictability FMA JJA OND

  10. Low Tropical Atlantic-Pacific Bridge warm

  11. Water-Hosing Experiment:Atlantic-Pacific Teleconnection

  12. Water-Hosing CTRL AMOC “ON” AMOC “off” 10Sv ON SV Collapse Recovery OFF Year

  13. Seasonality Of Atlantic Response • Two questions: • NA-TA Atmos. Tele. • Ocean Heat Transport

  14. Seasonal Response of Extratropical Atmospheric Circulation Quasi-baratropic Baroclinic

  15. Extratropical influence on the tropics through Atmospheric teleconnection Coupling in the NA No Coupling in the NA

  16. Heat Flux, SST and Surface Wind year1 year2 year3 year4 year5 year6 year7 year8 year9 year10

  17. MJJ ASO NDJ

  18. Eqautrorial Pacific Annual Cycle No coupling in the tropical Atlantic

  19. Seasonal response of North Pacific No coupling in the NA No Northern hemispheric atmospheric Tele.

  20. Does tropical Atlantic matter for the Northern hemispheric teleconnection?

  21. Extratropical-tropical Pacific Teleconnection

  22. T U EQ Coupled Propagation Mechanism: Coupled equatorward propagation due to wind-evaporation feedback ITCZ West East Xie and Philander 1994; Wu et al. 2006 (Climate Dynamics, in press)

  23. +NAO Arctic Oscillation

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