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RISZonal and Seasonal Variations of the Near-Surface Heat Balance of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This study calculates a detailed climatological inventory of the oceanic heat balance in the equatorial Pacific. The gridded climatology of Weare et al. is used as an estimate of net surface heating. Zonal and meridional/vertical ...
The Intraseasonal Oscillation in Eastern Pacific Sea Levels: How Is It Forced?
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Daily sea level and surface winds at eastern Pacific shore locations and equatorial islands, together with gridded five-day averages of 850 mb winds, have been analyzed for the 1979?84 period to determine how the 40?60 day ...
Annual and Nonseasonal Variability of Monthly Low-Level Wind Fields over the Southeastern Tropical Pacific
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The time and space variability of low-level winds over the Southeast Tropical Pacific (SETP) region is described for the 6-year period 1974?80. The data set consists of monthly averaged low-level cloud-motion vector winds ...
A Further Study of the Tropical Western Hemisphere Warm Pool
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Variability of the tropical Western Hemisphere warm pool (WHWP) of water warmer than 28.5°C, which extends seasonally over parts of the eastern North Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and the western tropical ...
A Further Study of the Tropical Western Hemisphere Warm Pool
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Variability of the tropical Western Hemisphere warm pool (WHWP) of water warmer than 28.5°C, which extends seasonally over parts of the eastern North Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and the western tropical ...
Environmental Patterns Associated with Active and Inactive Caribbean Hurricane Seasons
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This study of hurricanes passing through the Caribbean in the 1950?2005 period reveals that seasons with more intense hurricanes occur with the onset of Pacific La Niña events and when Atlantic SSTs west of Africa are above ...
Rotated Global Modes of Non-ENSO Sea Surface Temperature Variability
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A varimax rotation was applied to the EOF modes of global SST derived by Enfield and Mestas-Nuñez. The SST anomaly record is more than a century long, with a global complex EOF representation of ENSO and a linear trend ...
Multiscale Variabilities in Global Sea Surface Temperatures and Their Relationships with Tropospheric Climate Patterns
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a global phenomenon with significant phase propagation within and between basins. This is captured and described in the first mode of a complex empirical orthogonal function (CEOF) ...
The Heat Balance of the Western Hemisphere Warm Pool
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The thermodynamic development of the Western Hemisphere warm pool and its four geographic subregions are analyzed. The subregional warm pools of the eastern North Pacific and equatorial Atlantic are best developed in the ...
The Dependence of Caribbean Rainfall on the Interaction of the Tropical Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Seasonally stratified analyses of rainfall anomalies over the intra-Americas sea and surrounding land areas and of onset and end dates of the Central American rainy season show that the variability of the tropical Atlantic ...