One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica

• Main Authors: Barbante, C., van den Broeke, M.R., van de Wal, R.S.W.
• Other Authors: Marine and Atmospheric Research, Sub Dynamics Meteorology, Dep Natuurkunde
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Greenland; Guayaquil; Pacific; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/43723

The El Ni˜no variability in the equatorial Tropical Pacific is characterized by sea-surface temperature anomalies and associated changes in the atmospheric circulation. Through an enormous monitoring effort over the last decades, the relevant time scales and spatial patterns are fairly well-documented. In the meantime, a hierarchy of models has been developed to understand the physics of this phenomenon and to make predictions of future variability. In this short review, I try to summarize theories and mechanisms about El Ni˜no variability in such a way that these are accessible to a diverse group of El Ni˜no researchers, such as that present in Guayaquil (in May 2005) at the First International Alexander Von Humboldt Conference “The El Ni˜no Phenomenon and its Global Impact”.