The changing shape of Northern Hemisphere summer temperature distributions

Changing Northern Hemisphere Snow Seasons

Spatial and temporal patterns in the onset, offset, and length of the snow season across Northern Hemisphere continents are examined for the period from 1967 to 2008. Full snow seasons (FSS) and core snow seasons (CSS) are defined based on the consistency of snow cover within a location over the course of the cold season. Climatologically, the seasonal onsets of FSS and CSS progress more rapidl...

Mars- Northern hemisphere slopes and slope distributions

We investigate slope distributions in the northern hemisphere of Mars from topographic profiles collected by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter. Analysis of the region from about 12øS to 82øN, over diverse geologic units, indicates that the range of regional-scale slopes is small, generally < 3 ø. Surface smoothness is most distinctive in the vast northern hemisphere plains, where slopes are typi...

Northern Hemisphere summer temperature and specific humidity anomalies from two reanalyses

[1] This study investigates the magnitude and spatial extent of extreme summer temperature and specific humidity events in the extratropical northern hemisphere (NHEXT) using the NCEP Reanalysis (1979–2012) and the 20 century reanalysis (1871–2010). Specifically, we look at the percentage of area exceeding standard deviation thresholds in layer-averaged (500mb–1000mb) temperature and surface-le...

Forced and unforced changes in the shape of summer temperature distributions

Northern Hemisphere Summer Monsoon Singularities and Climatological Intraseasonal Oscillation

Using climatological pentad mean outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) and European Centre for MediumRange Weather Forecasts analysis winds, the authors show that the Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon displays statistically significant climatological intraseasonal oscillations (CISOs). The extreme phases of CISO characterize monsoon singularities—monsoon events that occur on a fixed pentad with us...