Abstract: This empirical investigation is devoted to the parsimonious description and diagnostic understanding of large-scale climate variability in the tropics. The role and importance of the Southern Oscillation (SO) over the ...

Abstract: Clusters of sea level pressure (SLP), surface wind, cloudiness, and sea surface temperature (SST) in the domain of the tropical Atlantic, eastern Pacific, and Indian Oceans are introduced and discussed in terms of general ...

Abstract: The Comprehensive Ocean?Atmosphere Data Set (COADS) offers the most complete marine surface data collection (1854?1992) currently available for global climate research. In the context of the long-term monitoring of global ...

Abstract: Trends in the large-scale circulation and seasonal characteristics of climate variability are investigated based on ship observations of sea level pressure, zonal and meridional wind components, sea surface temperature, ...

Abstract: This study documents statistical relationships between the El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon and extreme seasonal temperature anomalies over the continental United States. Relationships are examined for El ...

Abstract: ime series of U.S. daily heavy precipitation (95th percentile) are analyzed to determine factors responsible for regionality and seasonality in their 1979?2013 trends. For annual conditions, contiguous U.S. trends have ...

Abstract: he climatology of Colorado?s historical extreme precipitation events shows a remarkable degree of seasonal and regional variability. Analysis of the largest historical daily precipitation totals at COOP stations across ...