How Would the Twenty-First-Century Warming Influence Pacific Decadal Variability and Its Connection to North American Rainfall Assessment Based on a Revised Procedure for the IPO/PDO

• Published in: Journal of climate Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 1547 - 1563
• Main Authors: Xu, Yangyang, Hu, Aixue
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston American Meteorological Society 01.02.2018
• Subjects: 20th century; Annual variations; Climate; Climate change; Climate variability; Computer simulation; Earth; Empirical analysis; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Filtration; Global temperatures; Global warming; Heterogeneity; Interannual variability; Mathematical models; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; Orthogonal functions; Pacific Decadal Oscillation; Patchiness; Precipitation; Procedures; Rain; Rainfall; Sea surface; Sea surface temperature; Simulation; Spatial heterogeneity; Surface temperature; Time series; Variability; Wind; East Asia; Pacific Ocean; United States > US; Texas

Decadal climate variability of sea surface temperature (SST) over the Pacific Ocean can be characterized by interdecadal Pacific oscillation (IPO) or Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO) based on empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis. Although the procedures to derive the IPO and PDO indices dif...