"Adviser: Sukyoung Lee"

During boreal winter, the climatological stationary wave plays a key role in the poleward transport of heat in mid- and high-latitudes. Latent heating is an important driver of boreal winter stationary waves. In this study, we investigate how anomalies in tropical and extratropical diabatic heating contribute to Arctic warming through stationary wave interference by performing observational data analyses and idealized model experiments. The observational analysis shows that constructive (destructive) stationary wave interference tends to be preceded by enhanced (suppressed) tropical Pacific warm-pool convection and then followed by enhanced (suppressed) heating over the North Pacific and North Atlantic, and a warming (cooling) of the Arctic. If constructive interference takes place when both the tropical and extratropical diabatic heating are weak, constructive stationary wave interference does not lead to Arctic warming. Initial value calculations show that the tropical heating (extratropical heating) is an important driver of wave interference over the North Pacific (North Atlantic) Ocean. The model calculations also suggest that the extratropical heating tends to be augmented by the tropical heating, because the latter drives a circulation which transports moisture into the extratropical heating regions. Our results show that there are different flavors of stationary wave interference, and interference that is driven by both tropical and extratropical diabatic heating leads to a particularly prolonged Arctic warming whereas when both the tropical and extratropical diabatic heating are weak, constructive stationary wave interference does not lead to Arctic warming.