Abstract
AbstractSeveral recent studies have suggested that the stratosphere can be a source of subseasonal‐to‐seasonal predictability of Southern Hemisphere circulation during the austral spring and early summer seasons, through its influence on the zonal‐mean eddy‐driven jet. We exploit the large sample size afforded by the hindcasts from the European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts Integrated Forecast System to address a number of unanswered questions. It is shown that the picture of coherent seasonal variability of the coupled stratosphere‐troposphere system apparent from the reanalysis record during the spring/early summer period is robust to sampling uncertainty and that there is evidence of nonlinearity in the case of the most extreme variations. The effect of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on the eddy‐driven jet during this time of year is found to occur via the stratosphere, with no evidence of a direct tropospheric pathway. A simple two‐state statistical model of the stratospheric vortex is introduced to estimate the subseasonal‐to‐seasonal predictability associated with shifts of the seasonal cycle in the Southern Hemisphere extratropical atmosphere. This simple model, along with a more general model, is subsequently used to interpret skill scores associated with hindcasts made using the full seasonal forecast system. Together, the results provide evidence of tropospheric predictability on subseasonal‐to‐seasonal timescales during this time of year from at least as early as 1 August and show no evidence of a “signal‐to‐noise paradox” between the hindcasts and the reanalysis.
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