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: Predictability is deduced from phase space trajectories of weather and climate variables which evolve on attractors (local surface pressure and a δ 18O-record). Predictability can be defined by the divergence of initially ...

Abstract: The seasonal variations of the dynamic topography relative to 500 decibars in the western equatorial Pacific, using data from 6900 hydrographic stations, are compared with the seasonal fluctuations of sea level observed ...

Abstract: The mean meridional profile of dynamic topography across the zonal currents of the equatorial Pacific Ocean is disturbed by the observed deviation of monthly sea level at island stations from the long-term mean. From these ...

Abstract: The test results described are a portion of a current comprehensive series of investigations. No attempt is made to produce the values for wall frictional and bottom loads, which were measured ...

Abstract: El Niño is the occasional appearance of warm water off the coast of Peru; its presence results in catastrophic consequences in the fishing industry. A new theory for the occurrence of El Niño is presented. It isshown that ...

Abstract: The dynamic topography of the Pacific Ocean has been mapped and its mean annual and random variability has been investigated using approximately 66,600 hydrographic stations. Largest annual fluctuations are associated with ...

Abstract: Sea level records at many island and coastal stations in the equatorial Pacific Ocean have been used to study its response and that of the associated equatorial circulation to the 1972 El Niño. The response can be divided ...

Abstract: Long equatorial waves recently discovered in the Pacific Ocean on satellite photographs are being linked to oscillations in sea level at Fanning Island and to the oscillatory trajectory of a drifting buoy. The drift pattern ...

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 ...