Letter to the Editor: Temperature anomalies in high northerly latitudes and their link with the El Niño/Southern Oscillation

• Main Author: Bailey, J. S.
• Other Authors: Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, Queen's University Belfast (QUB)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 1998
• Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Pacific; Soi; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00316478; https://hal.science/hal-00316478/document; https://hal.science/hal-00316478/file/angeo-16-1523-1998.pdf

International audience 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.