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Updated Assessments of the 1998/99 Climate Change over the North Pacific
Title: | Updated Assessments of the 1998/99 Climate Change over the North Pacific |
Authors: | Minobe, Shoshiro Browse this author |
Keywords: | Decadal climate change | Climatic regime shifts | Air-sea interaction |
Issue Date: | 2004 |
Publisher: | Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University |
Citation: | Edited by Shunsuke F. Mawatari, Hisatake Okada. |
Journal Title: | Neo-Science of Natural History: Integration of Geoscience and Biodiversity Studies : Proceedings of International Symposium on "Dawn of a New Natural History - Integration of Geoscience and Biodiversity Studies" March 5-6, 2004, Sapporo |
Start Page: | 103 |
End Page: | 106 |
Abstract: | The anomalous climate conditions in the atmosphere and ocean over the North Pacific starting in 1998/99 are revisited using the updated data in the last five decade. The anomalous sea-surface temperatures and atmospheric circulations returned to the normal condition in the middle of the 2002. The sea-level displacement anomalies propagated as Rossby waves from the central North Pacific to Japan. It is suggested that the large part of the 1998/99 climate change can be understood as the quasi-decadal fluctuation of the East Pacific pattern and oceanic responses to it, and hence may be qualitatively different from the major climatic regime shifts in the 20th century. |
Description: | International Symposium on "Dawn of a New Natural History - Integration of Geoscience and Biodiversity Studies". 5-6 March 2004. Sapporo, Japan. |
Conference Name: | International Symposium on "Dawn of a New Natural History : Integration of Geoscience and Biodiversity Studies" |
Conference Place: | Sapporo |
Type: | proceedings |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/38513 |
Appears in Collections: | Neo-Science of Natural History : Integration of Geoscience and Biodiversity Studies > Proceedings
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