Recent shifts in the state of the North Pacific

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Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30wclm1b&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 23, pp. CLM 1-1, CiteID 2183, DOI 10.1029/2003GL018597

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Global Change: Oceans (4203), Global Change: Atmosphere (0315, 0325), Oceanography: General: Climate And Interannual Variability (3309), Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Ocean/Atmosphere Interactions (0312, 4504)

Scientific paper

The winters of 1999-2002 for the North Pacific were characterized by spatial patterns in sea level pressure anomaly (SLPA) and sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) with little resemblance to those of the leading pattern of North Pacific climate variability, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). In essence, the southeastern (northern) portion of the North Pacific was subject to atmospheric forcing characteristic of that before (after) the major regime shift of 1976-77. Recent major changes in the ecosystems off the west coast of the United States and continued conditions similar to those of the early 1990s in the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, and Sea of Okhotsk are consistent with these SLPA and SSTA patterns. Our result illustrates that a single indicator such as the PDO is incomplete in characterizing North Pacific climate.

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