The 18.6-year period moon-tidal cycle in Pacific Decadal Oscillation reconstructed from tree-rings in western North America

reconstructed from tree-rings in Western North America is found to have a statistically significant periodicity of 18.6year period lunar nodal tidal cycle; negative (positive) PDO tends to occur in the period of strong (weak) diurnal tide. In the 3rd and 5th (10th, 11th and 13rd) year after the maxi...

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Main Author: Ichiro Yasuda
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.380.1651
http://www.leif.org/EOS/2008GL036880.pdf
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Summary:reconstructed from tree-rings in Western North America is found to have a statistically significant periodicity of 18.6year period lunar nodal tidal cycle; negative (positive) PDO tends to occur in the period of strong (weak) diurnal tide. In the 3rd and 5th (10th, 11th and 13rd) year after the maximum diurnal tide, mean-PDO takes significant negative (positive) value, suggesting that the Aleutian Low is weak (strong), western-central North Pacific in 30–50°N is warm (cool) and equator-eastern rim of the Pacific is cool (warm). This contributes to climate predictability with a time-table from the astronomical tidal cycle. Citation: Yasuda, I. (2009), The 18.6-year period moon-tidal cycle in Pacific Decadal Oscillation reconstructed from tree-rings in western North America, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36