SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES AND MODEL-GENERAIED METEOROLOGICAL HISTORIES

摘要

In seasonal computations, the Mintz -Arakawa two-level model is found to be sensitive to a minor alteration in the computational program. Effects of the program change on monthly mean sea level pressure fields are small in the first month, but large. In the second and third months, although the meteorological histories generated by both the original and modified programs are equally credible.nThe inherited effects of a trensient (one month) sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly on the computed monthly mean sea level pressure fields over a period of a season are about as large in absolute magnitude as those generated In the model by a persistent (seasonal) SST anomaly.