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© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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17 Nov 2025
Research article |
| 17 Nov 2025
| 17 Nov 2025
QBOi El Niño–Southern Oscillation experiments: teleconnections of the QBO
Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Tsukuba, 305-0052, Japan
Jorge L. García-Franco
National School of Earth Sciences (Escuela Nacional de Ciencias de la Tierra), UNAM, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico
Chang-Hyun Park
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Korea
Mario Rodrigo
Group of Meteorology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 08028, Spain
Froila M. Palmeiro
Group of Meteorology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 08028, Spain
CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Bologna, 40127, Italy
Federico Serva
Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council (CNR-ISMAR), Rome, 00133, Italy
Masakazu Taguchi
Department of Earth Science, Aichi University of Education, Kariya, 448-0001, Japan
Kohei Yoshida
Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Tsukuba, 305-0052, Japan
James A. Anstey
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, V8N 1V8, Canada
Javier García-Serrano
Group of Meteorology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 08028, Spain
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, 08034, Spain
Seok-Woo Son
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Korea
Yoshio Kawatani
Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan
Neal Butchart
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Kevin Hamilton
International Pacific Research Center (IPRC), University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, 96822, USA
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, 96822, USA
Chih-Chieh Chen
U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), Boulder, 80305, USA
Anne Glanville
U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), Boulder, 80305, USA
Tobias Kerzenmacher
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing (IMKASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
François Lott
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 75231, France
Clara Orbe
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), New York, 10025, USA
Scott Osprey
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK
Mijeong Park
U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), Boulder, 80305, USA
Jadwiga H. Richter
U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), Boulder, 80305, USA
Stefan Versick
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing (IMKASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
Shingo Watanabe
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, 236-0001, Japan
Advanced Institute for Marine Ecosystem Change, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
Data sets
Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Climate Data Record (CDR), Version 2.3 (Monthly) Robert Adler et al. https://doi.org/10.7289/V56971M6
Short summary
Links between the stratospheric Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) and atmospheric circulations in the tropics, subtropics, and polar regions, as well as their modulation by the El Nino–Southern Oscillation, are examined through model experiments. The QBO–polar vortex connection is reproduced by a multi-model ensemble at about half the observed amplitude. Weak performance of QBO signals in these regions is likely due to unrealistically weak QBO amplitudes in the lower stratosphere.
Links between the stratospheric Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) and atmospheric circulations in...
