Abstract
Abstract Intraseasonal (20–70 day) variability is examined in the Atlantic region during Northern Hemisphere winter using ECMWF analyses and NOAA outgoing longwave radiation (OLR). It is found that the dominant 200-mb zonal-wind fluctuation over the tropical Atlantic, A1, is related to global-scale circulation anomalies with their origins in the Pacific. Compositing techniques are used to investigate the nature of the Pacific-Atlantic teleconnections and related changes in the tropical OLR and moisture convergence. The OLR anomalies associated with A1 are characterized by eastward propagation over the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific and a standing oscillation over the tropical Atlantic; the latter extends from Northeast Brazil to West Africa and is the dominant component of the Atlantic OLR variability on these time scales. An analysis of the velocity potential and moisture convergence fields suggests that the fluctuations in convection are coupled between the western Pacific and Atlantic via large-s...
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