Causal dependences between the coupled ocean–atmosphere dynamics over the tropical Pacific, the North Pacific and the North Atlantic

• Published in: Earth System Dynamics
• Main Authors: S. Vannitsem, P. Ekelmans
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: Science; Q; Geology; QE1-996.5; Dynamic and structural geology; QE500-639.5; Pacific; Ora; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-1063-2018; https://doaj.org/article/43907d3f69bf4d4ca43c6500f2f2ca9d

The causal dependences (in a dynamical sense) between the dynamics of three different coupled ocean–atmosphere basins, the North Atlantic, the North Pacific and the tropical Pacific region (Nino3.4), have been explored using data from three reanalysis datasets, namely ORA-20C, ORAS4 and ERA-20C. The...