El Nino and the Earth's Climate

From Decades to Ice Ages. The dominant paradigm of paleoclimatology holds that fluctuations in the oceans' meridional overturning circulation can explain most past climate changes.
ISBN: 9783639069754
Author: Julien Emile-Geay
Page: 184
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2008
Format: Book
Publisher: VERLAG DR. MÜLLER
Language: English

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There is, however, acute recognition of the importance of tropical Pacific sea-surface temperatures in orchestrating modern climate variability on timescales longer than a few years, epitomized by the El Nino - Southern Oscillation phenomenon (ENSO). This book investigates a subset of mechanisms whereby low-frequency variability is produced within the tropical Pacific and exported to the rest of the globe. We first develop an analytical theory of decadal changes in the tropical Pacific, making....

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