ISSN:
0992-7689
Keywords:
Meteorology and Atmospheric dynamics (ocean-atmosphere interactions)
;
Oceanography: general (climate and interannual variability)
;
Oceanography: physical (air-sea interactions)
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Geosciences
,
Physics
Notes:
Abstract I report the discovery of a low frequency temperature oscillation in the eastern North Atlantic (NA), which was significantly correlated with the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) in the tropical Pacific, but led the latter index by a number of months. This discovery is significant, because it demonstrates a link between the tropical Pacific and the high northerly latitudes which cannot readily be explained in terms of El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) feedbacks from the tropics, and opens up the possibility that ENSO and temperature anomalies in northerly climes, may actually have a common origin within, or even external to, the global climate system.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00585-998-1523-6
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