The Southern Annular Mode: variability, trends, and climate impacts across the Southern Hemisphere

RL Fogt, GJ Marshall - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) is the leading mode of extratropical Southern
Hemisphere climate variability, associated with changes in the strength and position of the …

Evolution of the Southern Annular Mode during the past millennium

NJ Abram, R Mulvaney, F Vimeux, SJ Phipps… - Nature Climate …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) is the primary pattern of climate variability in the
Southern Hemisphere,, influencing latitudinal rainfall distribution and temperatures from the …

Influence of the tropics on the southern annular mode

Q Ding, EJ Steig, DS Battisti, JM Wallace - Journal of Climate, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
Perturbations in the southern annular mode (SAM) are shown to be significantly correlated
with SST anomalies in the central tropical Pacific during austral winter and SST anomalies in …

[HTML][HTML] Trends in the Southern Annular Mode from observations and reanalyses

GJ Marshall - Journal of climate, 2003 - journals.ametsoc.org
Several papers have described a significant trend toward the positive phase of the Southern
Hemisphere annular mode (SAM) in recent decades. The SAM is the dominant mode of …

Can current reanalyses accurately portray changes in Southern Annular Mode structure prior to 1979?

GJ Marshall, RL Fogt, J Turner, KR Clem - Climate Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
Early reanalyses are less than optimal for investigating the regional effects of ozone
depletion on Southern Hemisphere (SH) high-latitude climate because the availability of …

South Pacific circulation changes and their connection to the tropics and regional Antarctic warming in austral spring, 1979–2012

KR Clem, RL Fogt - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
After 1979, statistically significant warming in Antarctica is only observed in austral spring
(September–November, SON) across West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula. While …

Impact of the Southern Annular Mode on Southern Ocean circulation and biology

NS Lovenduski, N Gruber - Geophysical Research Letters, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the impact of the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) on surface wind, sea surface
temperature (SST), and surface chlorophyll concentration on intraseasonal to interannual …

Regional climate impacts of the Southern Annular Mode

NP Gillett, TD Kell, PD Jones - Geophysical Research Letters, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Previous work on the influence of the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) on surface climate has
focused mainly on individual countries. In this study we use station observations of …

[HTML][HTML] Nonstationary impacts of the southern annular mode on Southern Hemisphere climate

G Silvestri, C Vera - Journal of Climate, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
The temporal stability of the southern annular mode (SAM) impacts on Southern
Hemisphere climate during austral spring is analyzed. Results show changes in the typical …

Trends and variability in the Southern Annular Mode over the Common Era

J King, KJ Anchukaitis, K Allen, T Vance… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) is the leading mode of atmospheric variability in
the extratropical Southern Hemisphere and has wide ranging effects on ecosystems and …