Interannual surface variability of the Southern Pacific Ocean in relation to the SAM pattern

• Main Authors: Yuri Cotroneo, Milena Menna, Pierpaolo Falco, Pierre Marie Poulain
• Other Authors: AA.VV., Cotroneo, Yuri, Menna, Milena, Falco, Pierpaolo, Marie Poulain, Pierre
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Pacific; New Zealand; Meredith; Antarc*; Antarctica; sami
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11367/69128; https://www.geophysical-research-abstracts.net/

Drifter and satellite data are used to define the response of the Pacific Sector of the Southern Ocean (PSSO) to the large scale climatic pattern (Southern Annular Mode index - SAMI) in the period 1995-2015. The SAMI, defined as the mean sea level pressure difference between the 40 ◦ S and 65 ◦ S la...