COVARIABILITY AND CLIMATIC CHANGES OF THE LOWER-TROPOSPHERE TEMPERATURES OVER THE NORTHERN-HEMISPHERE

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BARTZOKAS, A
METAXAS, DA
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[1] Laboratory of Meteorology, Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, Ioannina
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NUOVO CIMENTO DELLA SOCIETA ITALIANA DI FISICA C-GEOPHYSICS AND SPACE PHYSICS | 1993年 / 16卷 / 04期
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10.1007/BF02507647
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The covariability and the long-term fluctuation of the lower-troposphere temperatures is studied, applying factor analysis on grid point (1000 divided by 500) hPa thickness data for the Northern Hemisphere. About 30 factors were retained and rotated for each season and year, but only about half of them were found to be significant. The grouping of the grid points according to the factor loadings has been mainly influenced by the land and sea distribution. Three teleconnections were found only, one in winter and two in summer. The winter one is a see-saw phenomenon between West Asia and North-West Scandinavia. In summer, the British Isles were found to covary with East Canada and the same is the case for almost all the subtropical deserts. The study of the factor scores revealed that the recent warming of the Earth's surface in the lower troposphere appears over the continents only.
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