Amir Shabbar
Research Climatologist
Projects:
Publications
I. El Nino-Southern Oscillation
Shabbar A. and M.L. Khandekar, 1996: The impact of
El Nino/Southern Oscillation on the temperature field over Canada, Atmos.-Ocean 34(2), 401-416.
Shabbar, A., A. G. Barnston, 1996: Skill of seasonal
climate forecasts in Canada using Canonical Correlation Analysis, Mon. Wea. Rev., 124,
2370-2385.
Shabbar, A., B. Bonsal and M. Khandekar, 1997:
Canadian Precipitation Patterns Associated with the Southern Oscillation,
J. Climate,10, 3016-3027.
Shabbar, A., K. Higuchi, and J.P. Huang, 2003: Boundary
and initial flow induced variability over Pacific North America in CCC-AGCM
simulations. Tellus, 55A, 401-418.
Zhang, X, J. Sheng and A. Shabbar, 1998: Modes of interannual and interdecadal variability of Pacific SST, J. Climate, 11, 2556-2569.
II. The North Atlantic Oscillation
Higuchi, K., J.P. Huang and A. Shabbar, 1999:
A wavelet characterization of the North Atlantic oscillation variation and its
relationship to the North Atlantic sea surface temperature, Int. J.
Climatol., 19: 1119-1129.
Higuchi, K., C. W. Yuen and A. Shabbar, 2000:
Ice Sorm '98 in southcentral Canada and northeastern United States: A climatological
perspective, Theor. Appl, Climatol., 66, 61-79
Huang, J.P., K. Higuchi and A. Shabbar, 1998:
The relationship between the North Atlantic Oscillation and El Nino-Southern
Oscillation, Geophys. Res. Letter, 25, 2707-2710.
Shabbar, A., K. Higuchi, W. Skinner and J. L. Knox, 1997:
The
Association between the BWA Index and Winter Surface Temperature Variability
over Eastern Canada and West Greenland, Int J Climatol.,17,
1195-1210.
Shabbar, A.,Huang, J.P. and K. Higuchi, 2001:
The relationship between the wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation and Blocking
episodes in the North Atlantic, Int. J. Climatol., 21,
355-366.
III. Teleconnection Study
Bonsal, R., A. Shabbar and K. Higuchi, 2001:
Impacts of low frequency variability modes on Canadian winter temperature,
Intl. J. Climatol., 21, 95-108.
Etkin, D., S. E. Brun, A. Shabbar, and P. Joe, 2001: Tornado
climatology of Canada revisited: Tornado activity during different phases of
ENSO. Int. J. Climatol., 21, 915-938.
Higuchi, K., C.A. Lin, A. Shabbar and J.L. Knox, 1991: Interannual
variability of the January tropospheric meridional eddy sensible heat transport
in the northern latitudes, Journal of Met Soc of Japan, 69,
459-472.
Hsieh, W.W., Yuval, J. Li, A. Shabbar and S. Smith, 2003.
Seasonal
prediction with error estimation of Columbia River streamflow in British Columbia.
J. Water Resour. Plng. and Mgmt. 129(2): 146-149.
Knox, J.L., K. Higuchi, A. Shabbar and N. E. Sargent, 1988:
Secular variation of Northern Hemisphere 50 kPa geopotential height, J.
Climate, 1, 500-511.
Nils Chr. Stenseth, Amir Shabbar, Kung-Sik Chan, Stan Boutin,
Eli Knispel Rueness, Dorothee Ehrich, James W. Hurrell, Ole Chr. Lingjærde
and Kjetill S. Jakobsen, 2004: Snow
conditions may create an invisible barrier for lynx. Proc. NAS, 101, 10632-10634.
Shabbar, A., K. Higuchi and J.L. Knox, 1990:
Regional analysis of Northern Hemisphere 50 kPa geopotential heights from 1946
to 1985, J. Climate, 3, 543-557.
Skinner, W.R., B.J. Stocks, D. L. Martell, B. Bonsal and A. Shabbar,
1999:
The association between circulation anomalies in the mid-troposphere and area
burned by wildland fire in Canada, Theor. Appl, Climatol, 63,
89-105.
Skinner, W.R., B.J. Stocks, D. L. Martell, B. Bonsal and A. Shabbar,
1999: The relationship between are burned by wildland fire in Canada and circulation
anomalies. Biomass burning and its inter-relationships with the climate system.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 101-126.
Stenseth, N. C., A. Shabbar, K. S. Chan, S. Boutin, E. K.
Rueness, D. Ehrich, J. W. Hurrell, O. C., Lingjaerde, and K. S. Jacobsen, 2004:
Snow conditions may create an invisible barrier
for lynx, Proceeding of the National Academy of Science, 101, 10632-10634.
Wu, A., W. W. Hsieh, and A. Shabbar, 2002: Nonlinear
characteristics of the surface temperature over Canada.
J. Geophys. Res., 107, doi:10.1029/2001JD001090.
Wu, A., W. W. Hsieh and A. Shabbar, 2004: The nonlinear pattern of North American
temperature and precipitation associated with ENSO. J. Climate (submitted).
IV. Climate Extremes
Shabbar, A., and B. Bonsal, 2003: An
assessment of changes in winter cold and warm spells over Canada. Natural
Hazards, 29, 173-188.
Shabbar, A., and B. Bonsal, 2004: Association
between low frequency variability modes and winter temperature extremes in Canada,
Atmos.-Ocean, 42, 127-140.
Shabbar, A., and W. Skinner, 2004: Summer
drought patterns in Canada and the relationship to global sea surface temperatures.
J. Climate, 17(14), 2866-2880.
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