CLIMATE AND AIR/SEA INTERACTIONS
Upwelling along the California coast
What’s the What’s the thermohaline thermohaline circulation?circulation?
The Thermohaline Circulation
Air/sea interactions during normal & El Niños
El NiñoEl NiñoLa NiñaLa Niña
+ -Warm Phase Cool Phase
Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)
The Case of the Disappearing Salmon
http://essea.strategies.org/module.php?module_id=121
Precipitation anomalies during La Niña years
Goldenberg et al., Science, 2001
# of Big Hurricanes
AMO
Atlantic Hurricanes and the AMOAtlantic Hurricanes and the AMO
Positive PDOPositive PDO
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation
Negative PDONegative PDO