Sentences with phrase «major modes of climate variability»

The mass atmosphere movements in turn influence major modes of climate variability.

For example we know that the major modes of climate variability such as the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) project strongly onto Antarctic sea ice variability.

«One of the major modes of climate variability is El Niño and when we're in El Niño there's a large area of warm sea surface temps in the Pacific,» this leads to more precipitation on the West Coast, Crouch said.

The indices capture the major modes of climate variability.

These major modes of climate variability — «oscillating» ocean and atmospheric states — can be represented as oscillating nodes on the climate network.

Future releases will include summary statistics for sea ice distribution, land surface vegetation characteristics (in collaboration with the International Land Model Benchmarking, ILAMB), three - dimensional structure of ocean temperature and salinity, monsoon onset and withdrawal, the diurnal cycle of precipitation, major modes of climate variability, and selected «emergent constraints» [Flato et al., 2013].