Abstract: The Southern Oscillation (SO) is characterized by a temporal signal that dominates the variation of sea surface temperature (SST), pressure, and other fields in ?core regions,? which are mostly in or near the equatorial ...

Abstract: An attempt was made to specify Hawaiian winter rainfall from simultaneous Pacific sea surface temperature (SST). Over the period 1949?69,December?February Oahu rainfall had a multiple correlation of 0.83 with the simultaneous ...

Abstract: A method is proposed for simulating the fluctuations on time scales from a month to a few years in climatic properties such as circulation strengths and temperatures in specific regions. The model represents explicitly the ...

Abstract: Time series of sea surface temperature (SST) and air temperature (AT) for 1870?1969 based an ship observations over the Pacific are examined. The familiar signals of interannual variability in the equatorial and northeast ...

Abstract: Seasonal rainfall data at 56 stations in southwestern Australia covering the period 1876?1970 are analysed. The square-root transformation is used. Principal component analysis is used for an exploratory study; the first ...

Abstract: Trends and oscillations that have affected seasonal rainfalls in southwestern Australia since 1880 are revealed, and the most likely accompanying circulation changes are discussed. Results include a general increase of ...

Abstract: This note documents two indices of the Southern Oscillation based on sea-surface temperature (SST) and rainfall, and compares their statistics with those of two pressure indices. The indices are almost equivalent on an ...

Abstract: Relationships among the atmospheric phenomena associated with the Southern Oscillation and El Niño are investigated, using the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS) of marine surface observations from ships of ...