North Atlantic Heat Flux
The NCEP Climatology overestimates the Net Heat Loss for the North
Atlantic Region due to overestimation of Latent and Sensible Heat
Loss terms and underestimation of Shortwave Gain term.
This overestimation is leading to spurious results in the Low NAO
Model simulation.
Functional regression is used resolve the overestimation in NCEP
Climatology as follows:
Slope (m) and Intercept (y) are determined for each month using the
SOC and NCEP climatologies for 1980-1993 (High NAO)
SOC(high NAO) = m*NCEP(high NAO) + y
m and y are used to adjust the NCEP Climatology for 1958-
1971 (Low NAO)
Predicted NCEP (low NAO) = m*NCEP(low NAO) y, also
Predicted NCEP (high NAO) = [SOC(high NAO)-y] / m