Physics
Scientific paper
May 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994georl..21..883a&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 21, Issue 10, p. 883-886
Physics
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Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Climatology, Oceanography: General: Climate And Interannual Variability, Information Related To Geographic Region: Atlantic Ocean, General Or Miscellaneous: Techniques Applicable In Three Or More Fields
Scientific paper
An analysis of the 130-year record of the Earth's global mean temperature reveals a significant warming trend and a residual consistent with an autocorrelated (``red'') noise process whose predictability decays with a timescale of two years. Thus global temperatures, in isolation, do not indicate oscillations at 95% confidence against a red noise null hypothesis. Weak signals identified in the global series can, however, be traced to significant sea surface temperature oscillations in the equatorial Atlantic (period ~10 years) and the El Niño region of the Pacific (3-5 years). No robust evidence is found in this data for interdecadal oscillations. The 10-year Atlantic oscillation corresponds to a pattern of temperature anomalies which has been associated with interannual variations in West African rainfall and in U.S. hurricane landfall frequency.
Allen Myles R.
Smith Leonard A.
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