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The Near Surface Equatorial Indian Ocean in 1979. Part I: Linear Dynamics
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Different wind field analyses are used to force a one layer adiabatic model of the near equatorial surface circulation in the Indian Ocean in 1979. The model simulates the major features of the observations: eastward jets ...
Modeling Sea Level During El Niño
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: We test the hypothesis that sea level variations associated with EL Niño events are a response to wind changes in the central Pacific and that the signal is transmitted to the coast of South America by packets of equatorial ...
The Predictability of Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability: Insights from Attractor Reconstruction
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractTropical Pacific decadal variability (TPDV), though not the totality of Pacific decadal variability, has wide-ranging climatic impacts. It is currently unclear whether this phenomenon is predictable. In this study, ...
A Two-Layer Wind-Driven Ocean Model in a Multiply Connected Domain with Bottom Topography
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The behavior of the solution to a two-layer wind-driven model in a multiply connected domain with bottom topography imitating the Southern Ocean is described. The abyssal layer of the model is forced by interfacial friction, ...
Pacific Shallow Meridional Overturning Circulation in a Warming Climate
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: y analyzing a set of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) climate model projections of the twenty-first century, it is found that the shallow meridional overturning of the Pacific subtropical cells ...
Warming Trend of the Indian Ocean SST and Indian Ocean Dipole from 1880 to 2004
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The state of the Indian Ocean dipole representing the SST anomaly difference between the western and southeastern regions of the ocean is investigated using historical SST reconstructions from 1880 to 2004. First, the ...
Pacific Decadal Variability in the View of Linear Equatorial Wave Theory
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: It has recently been proposed, within the framework of the linear shallow-water equations, that tropical Pacific decadal variability (PDV) can be accounted for by basin modes with eigenperiods of 10 to 20 yr, amplifying a ...