Furthermore, a greater El Niño-Southern Oscillation influence in the South Pacific during Heinrich Stadial 1 is suggested, resulting from a southward expansion or shift of El Niño-Southern ...

Two of the planet's most powerful natural climate influencers, El Niño and La Niña, have shaped global weather patterns for ...

But at any time, and especially locally, it can be masked by weather events and natural variability on interannual ... referred to as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation or Inter-decadal Pacific ...

Oscillation Rules As The Pacific Cools Date: December 12, 2008 Source: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Summary: The latest image of sea-surface height measurements from the U.S./French Jason-1 ...

Extreme Pacific sea level events to double in future Date: September 25, 2015 Source: University of Hawaii at Manoa Summary: Many tropical Pacific island nations are struggling to adapt to gradual ...

The Pacific/North American Oscillation, or the Pacific/North American teleconnection pattern (PNA) is one of several prominent oscillation patterns (or teleconnections) that have broad impacts on ...

Last week, I wrote a long story about a phenomenon called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation or PDO, a naturally occurring wobble in the planet’s climate system that involves the burial and release ...

This longer-term seesaw is called the “Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation.” Looking over recent measurements, a group of researchers led by Matthew England of the University of New South Wales ...

The cycle is similar to the more commonly known El Niño Southern Oscillation but significantly longer in duration, reversing phases over the course of decades. The study found that the behavior of the ...

Sea-surface height is an indicator of the heat content of the upper ocean. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation is a long-term fluctuation of the Pacific Ocean that waxes and wanes between cool and ...