2004 年度 地球惑星科学専攻 修士論文要旨集
2005 年 2 月 2 日

氏名 片桐 有理佳
論文題目 The interannual co-variability between sea ice concentration in the Okhotsk Sea and atmospheric fluctuations (オホーツク海の海氷の経年変動と、北半球の大気との関わり)
論文要旨 Interannual co-variability between Sea Ice Concentrations (SICs) averaged over February and March and one-month leading wind speeds at 1000 hPa is studied for the Okhotsk Sea during the period from 1980 to 2003 by a Singular Value Decomposition analysis. The fist SVD mode (SVD1) exhibits overall increase and decrease of SICs with large amplitudes in climatological marginal ice zone accompanied by westerly wind anomalies over it. The second SVD mode (SVD2) is characterized by meridional dipole in the climatological marginal ice zone and by circular wind anomalies around the Okhotsk Sea. Accompanied regressions of 1000 hPa geopotential heights (z1000) for SVD1 are characterized by SLP difference between the strong negative maximum in the Bering Sea and weaker positive maximum in the northwestern North Pacific, while regressions for SVD2 resemble North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) pattern and Arctic Oscillation (AO) pattern. Consequently, SVD1 is related to relatively local atmospheric circulation anomalies over the Bering Sea and the northwestern North Pacific, while SVD2 is associated with larger-scale atmospheric variability over the Northern Hemisphere.