Why Is North Tropical Atlantic SST Variability Stronger in Boreal Spring?
- 1 August 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of Climate
- Vol. 17 (15) , 3017-3025
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<3017:wintas>2.0.co;2
Abstract
It is suggested that the seasonal dependence of interannual variability displayed by observed sea surface temperature (SST) over the north tropical Atlantic primarily reflects the seasonality of the remote forcing associated with the North Atlantic and Southern Oscillations and is controlled by the mean damping time scale of SST anomaly. A stochastic model including a seasonally dependent forcing is used to test this hypothesis against observations.Keywords
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