Abstract: The most important patterns of normalized sea surface temperature (SST) departures in the tropical Atlantic are identified using principal component analysis. The first three eigenvectors of separate monthly and seasonal ...

Abstract: Variations of the Southern Oscillation (SO) significantly influence surface climate over a large part of the globe. In the first part of this study we show that teleconnection patterns known from the instrumental record ...

Abstract: Scenarios for Europe in a warmer world, such as may result from increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, have been constructed using the early 20th century warming as an analogue. Mean temperature, Precipitation and ...

Abstract: Reconstructions of winter (December-February) sea level pressure (SLP) from western North American tree-ring chronologies are compared with a proxy record of winter severity in Japan derived from the historically documented ...