Low-Pass Filtering, Heat Flux, and Atlantic Multidecadal Variability

@article{Cane2017LowPassFH,
  title={Low-Pass Filtering, Heat Flux, and Atlantic Multidecadal Variability},
  author={Mark A. Cane and Amy C. Clement and Lisa N. Murphy and Katinka Bellomo},
  journal={Journal of Climate},
  year={2017},
  volume={30},
  pages={7529-7553}
}
AbstarctIn this model study the authors explore the possibility that the internal component of the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO) sea surface temperature (SST) signal is indistinguishable from the response to white noise forcing from the atmosphere and ocean. Here, complex models are compared without externally varying forcing with a one-dimensional noise-driven model for SST. General analytic expressions are obtained for both unfiltered and low-pass filtered lead–lag correlations. It… 
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