A1 Draft: The fishery for tunas and tuna-like fishes in the eastern Pacific Ocean in 2001, and outlook for 2002 A2 Draft: Status of yellowfin tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean in 2001 and outlook for 2002 A3 Draft: Status of skipjack tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean in 2001 and outlook for 2002 A4 Draft: Status of bigeye tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean in 2001 and outlook for 2002 A5 Draft: ...

AGENDA 1. Welcome, introductions, consideration of agenda 2. Review of stock assessments: a. Methods b. Species composition sampling progress c. Results i. Yellowfin ii. Skipjack iii. Bigeye iv. Bluefin (paper only) v. Blue marlin vi. Albacore (paper only) vii. Others 3. Ecosystem modeling 4. Summary and recommendations 5. Other business 6. Adjournment DOCUMENTS A1 The surface fishery for tunas...

[1] This study examines the impacts of the Indian Ocean on the ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) cycle by performing experiments with a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model (CGCM). In one of the experiments, the ocean model domain includes only the tropical Pacific Ocean (the Pacific Run). In the other experiment, the ocean model domain includes both the Indian and tropical Paci...

The responses of North Pacific intermediate and deep water ventilation and ocean biogeochemical properties to northern North Atlantic glacial freshwater perturbations are evaluated with a coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation model MIROC and an earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM. When the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is weakened as a result of th...

A new and distinctly interdecadal signal in the climate of the Pacific Ocean has been uncovered by examining the coupled behavior of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and Northern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation. This interdecadal Pacific signal (IPS) of ocean–atmosphere interaction exhibits a highly statistically significant interdecadal component yet contains little to no interannual (El Niñ...

Recent research indicates that the cooling trend in the tropical Pacific Ocean over the past 15 years underlies the contemporaneous hiatus in global mean temperature increase. During the hiatus, the tropical Pacific Ocean displays a La Niña-like cooling pattern while sea surface temperature (SST) in the Indian Ocean has continued to increase. This SST pattern differs from the well-known La Niña...

The linear temperature trend of the last 40 yr (1955–94) in the upper Pacific Ocean above 400 m is studied using an objectively analyzed dataset and simulations of an ocean general circulation model. Both the data and simulations suggest a warming trend in the western tropical Pacific (108S–108N) near the surface and in the eastern tropical Pacific above 400 m but a cooling trend in the thermoc...

Quite a few studies have documented the evolution of monsoon synoptic systems and midlatitude atmospheric blocking associated with the recent heavy precipitation and floods over northwest Pakistan during 2010. This period also witnessed a very unusual Indo-Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) evolution with a strong La Niña event in the Pacific, substantial Indian Ocean warming, and a negative...