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Manifestation of reanalyzed QBO and SSC signals

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Global spatial distribution of oscillations in the period bands linked to the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) and to the 11-year sunspot cycle (SSC) was investigated using the pseudo-2D wavelet transform. The results were obtained for the ERA-40, NCEP-DOE 2, NCEP/NCAR, and Twentieth Century Reanalysis V2 datasets. Those included time series of air temperature and zonal and meridional wind velocities were examined for all reanalyzed series from 1,000 up to 10 hPa. Most of the datasets covered the second half of the twentieth century. The results are generally in agreement with other related studies, and they point to the presence of the QBO in the tropical stratosphere along with the regions of induced changes in residual circulation, temperature, or ozone amount across extratropics. The SSC imprint is located mainly over similar locations showing that the cycles’ signals are mutually affected there.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to express their gratitude to the Czech Science Foundation, which supported this study through grant no. GACR 209/11/0956; to Charles University in Prague, which supported this study through project UNCE 204020/2012; and also to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, which supported this study through research plan no. MSM0021620860. The presented work would not be possible without the utilized datasets: 20CR, NCEP/NCAR, NCEP-DOE reanalyses (obtained from NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD, Boulder, Colorado, USA, http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/), and ERA-40 reanalysis (downloaded from the page of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, http://data-portal.ecmwf.int/data/d/era40_moda/).

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Pisoft, P., Holtanova, E., Huszar, P. et al. Manifestation of reanalyzed QBO and SSC signals. Theor Appl Climatol 112, 637–646 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-012-0752-5

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