Using self-organizing maps to detail synoptic connections between climate indices and Alaska weather

• Main Author: Winnan, Reynir C.
• Other Authors: Bhatt, Uma S., Collins, Richard L., Walsh, John E., Wackerbauer, Renate A.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Blob The; Fairbanks; Pacific; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/6408

Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2015 Seasonal forecasts for Alaska strongly depend on the phases of Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and warm water in the North Pacific called the North Pacific Mode or more popularly the "Pacific blob."...