Abstract:Based on the daily reanalysis data of NCEP/NCAR and the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data of Met Office Hadley Centre from 1967 to 2017, the characteristic index of northeast cold vortex structure in winter was calculated and the EOF decomposition method was used to study the temporal and spatial variation characteristics of northeast cold vortex in winter as well as its relationship with circulation and SST. Results show that (1) in winter, the northeast cold vortex has a significant interannual and interdecadal variation, and the interannual components of each index have a greater contribution to the variance; the intensity of cold vortex is positively correlated with latitude and longitude, and positively correlated with latitude and longitude. (2) The EOF results show that the first mode of interannual scale reflects that the northeast cold vortex in winter has a pair of North-South reverse phase characteristics of the climatic mean position with the south as a positive (negative) anomaly and the north as a negative (positive) anomaly, while the overall negative (positive) anomaly area of the second mode reflects the change of the strength of the cold vortex intensity at the average climate position. The interdecadal scale is mainly reflected in the first mode, namely, the intensity of the cold vortex intensity changes in the average position of the climate reflected by the overall negative (positive) anomaly area. (3) Further correlation analysis shows that the phase transition of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the Western Atlantic (WA) teleconnection is related to the strength of the northeast cold vortex in winter on the interdecadal scale.