Synoptic-Scale Atmospheric Circulation and Boreal Canada Summer Drought Variability of the Past Three Centuries

Girardin, Martin-Philippe, Tardif, Jacques C., Flannigan, Mike D. et Bergeron, Yves (2006). Synoptic-Scale Atmospheric Circulation and Boreal Canada Summer Drought Variability of the Past Three Centuries. Journal of Climate , 19 (10). pp. 1922-1947. doi:10.1175/JCLI3716.1 Repéré dans Depositum à https://depositum.uqat.ca/id/eprint/1167

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Five independent multicentury reconstructions of the July Canadian Drought Code and one reconstruction of the mean July-August temperature were developed using a network of 120 well-replicated tree-ring chronologies covering the area of the eastern Boreal Plains to the eastern Boreal Shield of Canada. The reconstructions were performed using 54 time-varying reconstruction submodels that explained up to 50% of the regional drought variance during the period of 1919-84. Spatial correlation fields on the six reconstructions revealed that the meridional component of the climate system from central to eastern Canada increased since the mid-nineteenth century. The most obvious change was observed in the decadal scale of variability. Using 500-hPa geopotential height and wind composites, this zonal to meridional transition was interpreted as a response to an amplification of long waves flowing over the eastern North Pacific into boreal Canada, from approximately 1851 to 1940. Composites with NOAA Extended Reconstructed SSTs indicated a coupling between the meridional component and tropical and North Pacific SST for a period covering at least the past 150 yr, supporting previous findings of a summertime global ocean-atmospherel-and surface coupling. This change in the global atmospheric circulation could be a key element toward understanding the observed temporal changes in the Canadian boreal forest fire regimes over the past 150 yr.

Type de document:	Article
Mots-clés libres:	Atmospheric movements; Atmospheric temperature; Drought; boreal forest; climate change; synoptic meteorology; Canada
Divisions:	Forêts
Date de dépôt:	13 mai 2020 16:39
Dernière modification:	13 mai 2020 16:39
URI:	https://depositum.uqat.ca/id/eprint/1167

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