Sentences with phrase «pdo warm pool»

The neg PDO warm pool was responsible for the last stage of the back to back La Nina of 2010/11.

The presence of the 30 year PDO warm pool will tend to favour La Nina over El Nino events which regulates Earth's climate.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, ocean - atmosphere coupling is very well recognized in this region on longer timescales (such as the multi-decade periodicity of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or PDO), so it seems likely that the anomalous ridging that has led to to California's extremely dry weather and the North Pacific warm pool are physically linked in one way or another.

In 2011 we saw clear evidence of the warm pool in the Pacific northwest (which is the main characteristic of the cool PDO phase) IS capable of «charging» the Walker Circulation pump that drives La Nina and inhibits El Nino.

For example, I think that the PDO spreads colder upwelling East Pacific water westwards over a greater fraction of the Pacific, and therefore leaves less surface room for the warmer water that deepens as a warm pool in the West Pacific.

The multi-decadal ocean oscillations, such as the AMO and PDO, change temperatures by less but over longer periods, so their pools of warm water are probably deeper, and consequently are released over a longer period.