Regional North Pacific forcing is predominant
in sea surface temperature variations throughout most of the CCS, while remote tropical forcing related to ENSO is more important in the far southern portion, off the west coast of Baja California.
Using different calibration and filtering processes, the two researchers succeeded in combining a wide variety of available data from temperature measurements and climate archives in such a way that they were able to compare the
reconstructed sea surface temperature variations at different locations around the globe on different time scales over a period of 7,000 years.
Also called the Madden - Julian Oscillation, these large - scale wave patterns create eastward propagating pulses of anomalous wind, rainfall, cloud cover, and
sea surface temperature variations that typically recur every 30 to 60 days.
These frequency changes are consistent with other paleoclimate indicators from the tropical North Atlantic, in particular,
sea surface temperature variations.
In today's post, I'll report on a new (relatively) high - resolution series from the Arabian Sea offshore Pakistan (Boll et al 2014, Late Holocene primary productivity and
sea surface temperature variations in the northeastern Arabian Sea: implications -LSB-...]