Pacific–Decadal Oscillation

• Main Authors: Nathan J Mantua, Ted Munn, John Wiley
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.534.7443; http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~mantua/REPORTS/egec_pdo.pdf

like oscillatory pattern of climate variability centered over the Pacific Ocean and North America. Over North Amer-ica, PDO variations are most energetic in the boreal winter and spring. The PDO has considerable influence on climate-sensitive natural resources in the Pacific and over North America, including the water supplies and snow pack in some selected regions in North America, and major marine ecosystems from coastal California north to the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea. In fact, it was fisheries scientist Steven Hare that coined the term Pacific Decadal Oscilla-tion (PDO) in 1996 while researching connections between Alaska salmon production cycles and Pacific climate (Hare