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Causes of Decadal Climate Variability over the North Pacific and North America

Year: 1994

Type: article

Abstract: The cause of decadal climate variability over the North Pacific Ocean and North America is investigated by the analysis of data from a multidecadal integration with a state-of-the-art coupled ocean-atmosphere model and observations. About one-third of the low-frequency climate variability in the region of interest can be attributed to a cycle involving unstable air-sea interactions between the subtropical gyre circulation in the North Pacific and the Aleutian low-pressure system. The existence of this cycle provides a basis for long-range climate forecasting over the western United States at decadal time scales.

Source: Science

DOI: 10.1126/science.266.5185.634

Authors: M. Latif, T. P. Barnett

Institutions: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Language: English

Topic: Climate variability and models

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Climate action

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Science Foundation