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