Letter to the Editor: Temperature anomalies in high northerly latitudes and their link with the El Niño/Southern Oscillation

J. S. Bailey (1)

1 Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science

I report the discovery of a low frequency temperature oscillation in the eastern North Atlantic (NA), which was significantly correlated with the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) in the tropical Pacific, but led the latter index by a number of months. This discovery is significant, because it demonstrates a link between the tropical Pacific and the high northerly latitudes which cannot readily be explained in terms of El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) feedbacks from the tropics, and opens up the possibility that ENSO and temperature anomalies in northerly climes, may actually have a common origin within, or even external to, the global climate system.

Domaines: Océan, Atmosphère; Sciences de la Terre

J. S. Bailey. Letter to the Editor: Temperature anomalies in high northerly latitudes and their link with the El Niño/Southern Oscillation. Annales Geophysicae, 1998, 16 (11), pp.1523-1526. ⟨hal-00316478⟩