Evaluation and improvement of a SVD-based empirical atmospheric model

An empirical atmospheric model (EAM) based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) method is evaluated using the composite El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) patterns of sea surface temperature (SST) and wind anomalies as the target scenario. Two versions of the SVD-based EAM were presented for comparisons. The first version estimates the wind anomalies in response to SST variations based on modes that were calculated from a pair of global wind and SST fields (i.e., conventional EAM or CEAM). The second version utilizes the same model design but is based on modes that were calculated in a region-wise manner by separating the tropical domain from the remaining extratropical regions (i.e., region-wise EAM or REAM).