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To describe the spatial structure of hydrometeorological fields in the North Atlantic and in the Black Sea, the temperature indices (sea surface temperature gradients) representing the difference in sea surface temperature anomalies averaged throughout the water area and normalized by standard deviations are introduced. Temperature gradients between the Sargasso Sea and the tropics (STI), the Sargasso Sea and the subpolar cyclonic gyre (SNI), the Sargasso Sea and the Black Sea (SBI) are considered. The spatial structure of the sea surface temperature field anomalies in the North Atlantic and in the Black Sea at extreme values of STI and SBI is discussed. A sign-variable structure of air temperature and precipitation anomalies in the Black Sea area at extreme values of SBI is shown. Time scales of sign-variable variability of anomalies of hydrometeorological fields in the Black Sea area are estimated.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Sizov, A.E. Chekhlan, 2010, published in Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2010, No. 7, pp. 65–74.
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Sizov, A.A., Chekhlan, A.E. Anomalies of hydrometeorological fields in the Black Sea area associated with sea surface temperature gradients in the North Atlantic. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 35, 476–482 (2010). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373910070071
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