Empirical Master Equations. Part II: Application to Stratospheric QBO, Solar Cycle, and Northern Annular Mode
Empirical Master Equations. Part II: Application to Stratospheric QBO, Solar Cycle, and Northern Annular Mode
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2007
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J. Egger
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M. Dall’Amico;J. Egger
Abstract Time series of stratospheric climate variables are used to derive master equations in the discretized phase space spanned by three variables. The empirical master equation (EME) predicts the probability density function (PDF) in this phase space. The numerical properties of EMEs have been investigated in the first part of this paper using synthetic time series. In this part of the paper, the time series consist of normalized and deseasonalized daily and zonally averaged meteorologically relevant quantities obtained from the 40-yr ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-40) and observations. One EME reproduces the climatological features of the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) of stratospheric equatorial zonal wind including the probabilistic character of transitions between phases. Also, the Arctic stratosphere at 10 hPa is about 2 K warmer during the easterly phase of the QBO than during the westerly phase. Another EME including a time series of the solar radio flux at 10.7 cm hints that the relationship between...