On the existence and strength of the summer subtropical anticyclones : Bernhard Haurwitz memorial lecture
On the existence and strength of the summer subtropical anticyclones : Bernhard Haurwitz memorial lecture
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1996
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B. Hoskins
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B. Hoskins
The subtropical anticyclones are usually related to radiative cooling and the descending arm of the Hadley Cell. This explanation works well for the winter anticyclone belt. However, the summer subtropical anticyclones are in most measures stronger, as well as being more longitudinally localized, than their winter counterparts. The nature of the circulations in the summer and winter subtropics, and the Tropics are compared. It is hypothesized that the basic cause of the summer anticyclones is the monsoonal latent heat release over the neighboring continents to the east. As this diabatic heating pushes poleward to near 25° latitude, so deep descent is induced poleward and westward of it. Orographic effects can act to localize this descent. Enhanced radiative cooling and suppressed convection are then viewed as amplifiers of the descent. Under this descent is the equatorward moving air of an anticyclone, which is centered to the west. This wind acts to drive oceanic upwelling, leading to cold sea surface temperatures and reinforcement of the suppression of convection.