Some processes arise through interactions with other parts of the climate system such as the ocean (for example as manifested
through sea surface temperature anomalies), sea ice anomalies, snow cover anomalies as well as through coupling to the circulation in the stratosphere.
Not exact matches
Any way you look it, from the Climate Prediction Center Outlook
through May, to the ongoing warm
anomalies in land and
sea surface temperatures, much of the United States is likely to find above average
temperatures in the coming months.
Everyone here understands the PDO is derived
through a statistical analysis of the
sea surface temperature anomalies of the North Pacific, north of 20N.