Sea level pressure (SLP) acts, on the one hand, as a ‘‘bridge parameter’’ to which geophysical properties at the air–sea interface (e.g., wind stress and sea surface height) are linked, and on the other hand, as an ‘‘index parameter’’ by which major atmospheric oscillations, including the well-known Southern Oscillation, are defined. Using 144 yr (1854–1997) of extended reconstructed SLP data, ...

The nature and causes of the recent increase in North Atlantic wave heights are explored by combining a numerical hindcast with a statistical analysis. The numerical hindcast incorporates a 10-yr history (1980–89) of North Atlantic, twice daily wind analyses to generate a monthly averaged significant wave height (SWH) history. The hindcast compares favorably with published monthly averaged SWH ...

Two possible interpretations of forced climate change view it as projecting, either linearly or nonlinearly, onto the dominant modes of variability of the climate system. An evaluation of these two interpretations is performed using annual mean sea level pressure (SLP) and surface air temperature (SAT) fields obtained from integrations of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory coupled genera...

The sea ice motion, area export, and deformation of the Ross Sea ice cover are examined with satellite passive microwave and RADARSAT observations. The record of high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data, from 1998 and 2000, allows the estimation of the variability of ice deformation at the small scale ( 10 km) and to assess the quality of the longer record of passive microwave ice mo...

Remote sensing data provided the major contribution to the sea surface temperature (SST) field analysis during last several decades. Climate variability of the SST in Northern Atlantic is investigated by using an empirical orthogonal function (EOF) and fuzzy classification techniques. The leading EOF of the wintertime sea-level pressure (SLP) field is more strongly coupled to the surface atmosp...

This study examines the linkages between leading patterns of interannual sea level pressure (SLP) variability over the extratropical Pacific (208–608N) and the eastern Pacific (EP) and central Pacific (CP) types of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The first empirical orthogonal function (EOF) mode of the extratropical SLP anomalies represents variations of the Aleutian low, and the second E...

Sea surface temperature (SST) is an essential parameter associated with fish habitat and changes in oceanic conditions. Long-term SST variation relation to sea level pressure (SLP) wind speed (SWS) was observed based on the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data of southern Indian Ocean. Mean monthly time series showed that February November were warmest coolest months, respect...

Data collected by the International Arctic Buoy Programme from 1979 to 1998 are analyzed to obtain statistics of sea level pressure (SLP) and sea ice motion (SIM). The annual and seasonal mean fields agree with those obtained in previous studies of Arctic climatology. The data show a 3-hPa decrease in decadal mean SLP over the central Arctic Ocean between 1979–88 and 1989–98. This decrease in S...

Abstract We investigate the uncertainty (i.e., inter-model spread) in future projections of boreal winter climate, based on forced response ten models from CMIP5 following RCP8.5 scenario. The sea level pressure (SLP) is large North Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic. A major part these uncertainties (31%) marked by a pattern with center northeastern Pacific dipole over Atlantic that we label as Pac...