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The winter Arctic Oscillation (AO), a major source of climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere, affects winter and the subsequent spring climate over northern high latitude. Such effects are evident even in the 1st eigenmode of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). The impacts of the winter AO is a dipole pattern between Eurasia and North America; positive (negative) values of the winter AO induce warmer (cooler) and high (low) vegetation activity in the following spring over Eurasia (North America). Regarding the time-lagged response of vegetation, the sea surface temperature (SST) and snow cover contribute to maintaining the large-scale circulation anomaly associated with the AO.
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Cho, MH., Lim, GH. & Song, HJ. The effect of the wintertime Arctic Oscillation on springtime vegetation over the northern high latitude region. Asia-Pacific J Atmos Sci 50 (Suppl 1), 567–573 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13143-014-0046-1
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