Overview Pacific and Arctic Oceans

– NOAA/NCEP Climate Forecast System (CFS) suggests that the current La Niña is in a decay phase, and ENSO will be near neutral in the summer 2011. – PDO has been negative since Jun 2010, and weakened slightly since Jan 2011 with PDO index=-1.3 in Feb 2011. – Anomalous upwelling strengthened at 36ON-...

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Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Arctic
Pacific
Sea ice
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.432.156
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/GODAS/ocean_briefing_gif/global_ocean_monitoring_2011_03.pdf
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Summary:– NOAA/NCEP Climate Forecast System (CFS) suggests that the current La Niña is in a decay phase, and ENSO will be near neutral in the summer 2011. – PDO has been negative since Jun 2010, and weakened slightly since Jan 2011 with PDO index=-1.3 in Feb 2011. – Anomalous upwelling strengthened at 36ON-57ON along the west coast of North America in Feb 2011, leading to above-normal nutrient supply. – Artic sea ice extent was well below normal, and smaller than that of 2006-2007 since mid-Dec 2010.

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