The 1997–98 EL Niño in the Bering Sea as Compared with Previous ENSO Events and the “Regime Shift ” of the Late 1970’s

• Main Author: H. J. Niebauer
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Figure 1. Winter; Bering Sea; Pacific; Soi; aleutian low; Sea ice; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.360.1176; http://www.pices.int/publications/scientific_reports/Report10/niebauer.pdf

as well as extreme interannual variability. In the mean, winter sea ice advance exceeds 1000 km while in summer the Bering Sea is ice free. However, interannual ice variability is as great as 400 km. The interannual variability of the Bering Sea depends in large part on the winter variability of the...