2010: Extratropical air-sea interaction, sea surface temperature variability, and the Pacific decadal oscillation. Climate Dynamics: Why Does Climate Vary?, Geophys

• Main Author: Michael Alexander
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Curl; Pacific; aleutian low
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.589.2421; http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/people/michael.alexander/Alexander.agu-chapter.11-10.pdf

We examine processes that influence North Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies including surface heat fluxes, upper ocean mixing, thermocline variability, ocean currents, and tropical-extratropical interactions via the atmo-sphere and ocean. The ocean integrates rapidly varying atmospheri...