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Abstract: Recent observational studies have suggested that interactions between the atmosphere and the ocean play an important role in the pronounced annual cycle of the eastern equatorial Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The key to ...

Abstract: Data from a realistic model of the ocean, forced with observed atmospheric conditions for the period 1953?92, are analyzed to determine the energetics of interannual variability in the tropical Pacific. The work done by ...

Abstract: Although the sun ?crosses? the equator twice a year, the eastern equatorial Pacific has a pronounced annual cycle, in sea surface temperature and in both components of the surface winds for example. (This is in contrast ...

Abstract: Interactions between the tropical oceans and atmosphere permit a spectrum of natural modes of oscillation whose properties?period, intensity, spatial structure, and direction of propagation?depend on the background climatic ...

Abstract: The impacts of a freshening of surface waters in high latitudes on the deep, slow, thermohaline circulation have received enormous attention, especially the possibility of a shutdown in the meridional overturning that ...