Sentences with phrase «decadal oscillation now»

With the Pacific Decadal Oscillation now in decline and solar irradiation now falling we are already in very different times.

Not exact matches

Nearly 20 years ago, researcher Nate Mantua (now at NOAA) and co-authors published a paper that revealed a close link between the survival of Pacific salmon and an inter-decadal climate phenomenon they dubbed the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO).

First it was the sun, then it was volcanoes, then it was cosmic rays, then it was the Pacific decadal oscillation, now it's the ~ Atlantic ~ decadal oscillation (I might have the order wrong).

The wind patterns may have changed due to a combination of the current Pacific Decadal Oscillation which has now started changing, and the ozone hole allowing more sunlight to reach the surface rather than being absorbed in the stratosphere; the extra energy from this may have accelerated the winds.

Now forced to explain the warming hiatus, Trenberth has flipped flopped about the PDO's importance writing «One of the things emerging from several lines is that the IPCC has not paid enough attention to natural variability, on several time scales,» «especially El Niños and La Niñas, the Pacific Ocean phenomena that are not yet captured by climate models, and the longer term Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) which have cycle lengths of about 60 years.»