Not exact matches
Spectral analyses suggested that the reconstructed annual mean temperature variation may be related to large - scale atmospheric —
oceanic variability such as the solar activity, Pacific
Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and El Niño — Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
The paper... offers a useful framework for which
decadal variations in the global (or northern hemisphere) may be explained via large scale modes of
oceanic variability.
Together the
oceanic upwelling in the north and south Pacific and the movement of atmospheric mass from and to the poles provide almost all of the
decadal variability in Earth's climate.
Natural factors such as the Sun (84 papers), multi-
decadal oceanic - atmospheric oscillations such as the NAO, AMO / PDO, ENSO (31 papers),
decadal - scale cloud cover variations, and internal
variability in general have exerted a significant influence on weather and climate changes during both the past and present.
Given these and other misrepresentations of natural
oceanic variability on
decadal scales (e.g., Zhang and McPhaden 2006), a role for natural causes of at least some of the recent
oceanic warming should not be ruled out.»
Increasing attention is being paid to IPCC misrepresentations of natural
oceanic variability on
decadal scales (Compo and Sardeshmukh 2009): «Several recent studies suggest that the observed SST
variability may be misrepresented in the coupled models used in preparing the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report, with substantial errors on interannual and
decadal scales (e.g., Shukla et al. 2006, DelSole, 2006; Newman 2007; Newman et al. 2008).