[h=2]5.2. Assessing the tropical and extratropical impact To investigate the impact of the tropical and extratropical forcing  on generating NAO events the mean state of the atmosphere is forced in  the barotropic model with the  
	
	
	
		
		
		
		
	
	
 					 				 confined to 0°–30° N or 30°–90° N, respectively, for both positive  and negative NAO events. The model is run to equilibrium. The meridional  velocity anomalies from the simulations are shown in 
Fig. 5.  For each NAO phase, firstly, only the response to tropical forcing is  shown, then only the response to extratropical forcing and finally the  response to tropical and extratropical forcing together.
 
	 Fig. 5
Fig. 5.    				Meridional wind anomalies simulated by the barotropic model when the  mean circulation at 300 hPa is forced with the anomalous  
	
	
	
		
		
		
		
	
	
 						 					and run to equilibrium. First the forcing is restricted to the tropical band (0°–30°
N, left panels), where in panel a) the positive NAO forcing ( 
	
	
	
		
		
		
		
	
	
) is used and in d) the negative NAO forcing is used ( 
	
	
	
		
		
		
		
	
	
). Second, the forcing is applied only in the extratropics (30° −90°
N, middle panels), similarly in b) the positive NAO forcing ( 
	
	
	
		
		
		
		
	
	
) is used and in e) the negative NAO forcing is used ( 
	
	
	
		
		
		
		
	
	
). Finally to show the overall effect of using the anomalous NAO forcing, the entire hemisphere is forced, in c) with  
	
	
	
		
		
		
		
	
	
 						 					and in f) with  
	
	
	
		
		
		
		
	
	
. The contour intervals are 1 m/s and negative values are indicated in blue.