Reconstruction of the pressure pattern over Japan using two-point pressure/temperature datasets

HR: 0800h
AN: PP11A-0213 [Abstracts]
TI: Reconstruction of the pressure pattern over Japan using two-point pressure/temperature datasets
AU: * ZAIKI, M
EM: zaiki@csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
AF: Kobe University, Tsurukabuto 1-2-1, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan
AU: TSUKAHA, T
EM: BYZ06433@nifty.com
AF: Kobe University, Tsurukabuto 1-2-1, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan
AU: KONNEN, G
EM: konnen@planet.nl
AU: MIKAMI, T
EM: mikami@comp.metro-u.ac.jp
AF: Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami-Osawa 1-1, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, 192-0397, Japan
AB: The temperature and pressure differences between Tokyo and Nagasaki were applied for reconstruction of the past climate conditions. January and July in each year since the 1820’s were divided into several types characterized by sea level pressure patterns. The findings indicated that the warming after 1900 (after the decline of the so-called Little Ice Age) and again after 1960 can at least partly be attributed to a increase in frequency of warm circulation types at the cost of cold types. The different nature of the shift in circulation types around 1900 and 1960 suggest that the mechanisms behind these warmings are of a different nature.
DE: 1620 Climate dynamics (0429, 3309)
DE: 3305 Climate change and variability (1616, 1635, 3309, 4215, 4513)
DE: 3344 Paleoclimatology (0473, 4900)
DE: 9320 Asia
SC: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology [PP]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting