INTERACTION BETWEEN SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION IN WINTER HALF YEAR

As oceans cover about 71% of the Earth's surface and have bigger thermal capacity than the air, they act as a storage and regulator of solar radiation, and therefore, play an important part in the formation of long-range weather process.Many meteorologists have been studying the interaction between the sea surface temperature (SST) and the atmospheric circulation^[1-5].Some of them emphasize the active role of the oceans and consider that the variations of SST control the atmospheric circulation anomalies, but others often express different viewpoints.What relation really exists between the ocean and the atmosphere? To answer this question, one must pay more attention to the spatialand temporal variations in the relationship between circulation and SST.The purpose of the present paper is to get a better understanding of their variations.