– Pacific/Arctic Ocean – Indian Ocean – Atlantic Ocean • CFS SST Predictions 3 • Pacific Ocean

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: North Pacific enhanced; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Indian; Pacific; North Atlantic; Pacific Arctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.640.7926; http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/GODAS/ocean_briefing_gif/global_ocean_monitoring_2009_03.pdf

– La Niña conditions (NINO3.4 <-0.5oC) weakened, and are expected to return to ENSO-neutral conditions in the Northern Hemisphere Spring. – Negative PDO phase that started in September 2007 has persisted for 18 months now, and 2008 has the lowest yearly mean PDO index since 1971. – Above-normal upwelling that has persisted since mid-November 2007 switched to below-normal in later February along the western coast of North America south of 35N. • Indian Ocean – Positive SST anomalies presented in the western Indian Ocean. – IOD index became weakly positive. • Atlantic Ocean – Above-normal SST in North Atlantic persisted. – Above-normal SST in the tropical North Atlantic returned to near-normal or below-normal, while above-normal SST in the tropical South Atlantic and equatorial Atlantic persisted.