One dynamically downscaled IPCC simulation (WRF - MPI - ECHAM5) has a robust representation of
Pacific sea surface temperature variability in the future projection period up to 2040, but the relationship to enhancement of precipitation extremes is not as clear as in observations.
They found a 60 - to 90 - year cycle in Barents and Greenland seas ice extent related to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO); the AMO is a basin - wide cycle of
sea surface temperature variability similar to the El Niño and La Niña cycles in the Pacific, but varying over much longer periods.
Atmospheric Aerosols and the Death of Nature Guest post by Dr. Patrick Michaels Big news last week was that new findings published in Nature magazine showed that human emissions of aerosols (primarily from fossil fuel use) have been largely responsible for the multi-decadal patterns
of sea surface temperature variability in the Atlantic ocean that have...
The component of
sea surface temperature variability that maximizes its integral time scale, obtained from the combination of 14 control runs of CMIP3 climate models.