Sentences with phrase «ocean modes shift»

Not exact matches

The coup de grace is likely delivered to the old climate via new winds and an altered greenhouse, but ocean changes may be what sets up the flip to a new mode of operation — and, even more ultimately, it may be continental drift that sets up the modes into which ocean circulation can shift.

More recent work is identifying climate shifts working through the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), Southern and Northern Annular Modes (SAM and NAM), Artic Oscillation (AO), Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), North Pacific Oscillation (NPO) and other measures of ocean and atmospheric stOcean Dipole (IOD), North Pacific Oscillation (NPO) and other measures of ocean and atmospheric stocean and atmospheric states.

When the mode shifts south, the ocean heat uptake will reduce and temperature will reduce because there is less land amplification.

«Trenberth and Fasullo found that after the massive El Niño event in 1998, the Pacific Ocean appears to have shifted into a new mode of operation.

That is abrupt shifts in the climate system that are captured in these modes of atmospheric and ocean circulation.

If the surface pressure distribution begins to shift to a more meridional / equatorward pattern as it did around 2000 then if previously it was in a poleward / zonal mode it is clear that warming will have ceased and cooling has begun due to more global cloudiness and less solar energy getting into the oceans.

Collectively the processes produce 20 to 30 year warmer or cooler regimes of Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature — and abrupt shifts between that may be triggered by UV / ozone chemistry modulation of the polar annular modes.

Those who pay attention to such things knew it would be warm; the central Pacific was plainly shifting into its El Nino mode, and when that happens, global temperatures rise a bit as energy is released from ocean to atmosphere.