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A model of decadal ocean‐atmosphere interaction in the North Pacific Basin
Author(s) -
Jin FeiFei,
Kimoto Masahide,
Wang Xiaochun
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2000gl008478
Subject(s) - extratropical cyclone , teleconnection , climatology , ocean gyre , rossby wave , atmosphere (unit) , pacific decadal oscillation , oceanic basin , subtropics , environmental science , climate model , tropics , ocean heat content , geology , sea surface temperature , oceanography , atmospheric sciences , climate change , structural basin , el niño southern oscillation , geography , meteorology , paleontology , fishery , biology
From a simple and a global coupled model, we showed that the tropical and extratropical ocean‐atmosphere interactions and the teleconnection between the tropics and extratropics in these interactions are responsible for the co‐variations of the decadal to interdecadal climate fluctuations in the tropical and extratropical Pacific. The subtropical oceanic Rossby waves are found to play an important role in forming the coupled decadal to interdecadal mode. They are responsible for slow exchanges of mass and heat between the tropical and subtropical ocean gyres that serve as an important oceanic linking bridge of the tropical and extratropical decadal to interdecadal ocean‐atmosphere interactions in the Pacific basin.