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Decadal Changes in the Relationship between Arctic Oscillation and Surface Air Temperature over Korea

북극진동과 한반도 지표기온 관계의 장기변동성

  • Jun, Ye-Jun (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Song, Kanghyun (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Son, Seok-Woo (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University)
  • 전예준 (서울대학교 지구환경과학부) ;
  • 송강현 (서울대학교 지구환경과학부) ;
  • 손석우 (서울대학교 지구환경과학부)
  • Received : 2020.11.20
  • Accepted : 2021.01.23
  • Published : 2021.03.31
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Abstract

The relationship between the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and surface air temperature (SAT) over Korea is re-examined using the long-term observation and reanalysis datasets for the period of December 1958 to February 2020. Over the entire period, Korean SAT is positively correlated with the AO index with a statistically significant correlation coefficient, greater than 0.4, only in the boreal winter. It is found that this correlation is not static but changes on the decadal time scale. While the 15-year moving correlations are as high as 0.6 in 1980s and 1990s, they are smaller than 0.3 in the other decades. It is revealed that this decadal variation is partly due to the AO structure change over the North Pacific. In the period of 1980s-1990s, the AO-related sea level pressure fluctuation is strong and well defined over the western North Pacific and the related temperature advection effectively changes the winter SAT over Korea. In the other periods, the AO-related circulation anomaly is either weak or mostly confined within the central North Pacific. This result suggests that Korean SAT-AO index relationship, which becomes insignificant in recent decades is highly dependent on mean flow change in the North Pacific.

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