Letter to the Editor: Temperature anomalies in high northerly latitudes and their link with the El Niño/Southern Oscillation

International audience I report the discovery of a low frequency temperature oscillation in the eastern North Atlantic (NA), which was significantly correlated with the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) in the tropical Pacific, but led the latter index by a number of months. This discovery is signifi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bailey, J. S.
Other Authors: Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, Queen's University Belfast (QUB)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 1998
Subjects:
[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean
Atmosphere
[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences
Pacific
Soi
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://hal.science/hal-00316478
https://hal.science/hal-00316478/document
https://hal.science/hal-00316478/file/angeo-16-1523-1998.pdf
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Summary:International audience I report the discovery of a low frequency temperature oscillation in the eastern North Atlantic (NA), which was significantly correlated with the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) in the tropical Pacific, but led the latter index by a number of months. This discovery is significant, because it demonstrates a link between the tropical Pacific and the high northerly latitudes which cannot readily be explained in terms of El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) feedbacks from the tropics, and opens up the possibility that ENSO and temperature anomalies in northerly climes, may actually have a common origin within, or even external to, the global climate system.

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