• DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0508.1
• Corpus ID: 4824093

The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Revisited

@article{Newman2016ThePD,
  title={The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Revisited},
  author={Matthew Newman and Matthew Newman and Michael A. Alexander and Toby R. Ault and Kim M. Cobb and Clara Deser and Emanuele Di Lorenzo and Nathan J Mantua and Arthur J. Miller and Shoshiro Minobe and Hisashi Nakamura and Niklas Schneider and Daniel J. Vimont and Adam S. Phillips and James D. Scott and James D. Scott and Catherine A. Smith and Catherine A. Smith},
  journal={Journal of Climate},
  year={2016},
  volume={29},
  pages={4399-4427}
}

• M. Newman, M. Newman, +15 authors Catherine A. Smith
• Published 8 June 2016
• Environmental Science
• Journal of Climate

AbstractThe Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO), the dominant year-round pattern of monthly North Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) variability, is an important target of ongoing research within the meteorological and climate dynamics communities and is central to the work of many geologists, ecologists, natural resource managers, and social scientists. Research over the last 15 years has led to an emerging consensus: the PDO is not a single phenomenon, but is instead the result of a combination of different physical processes, including both remote tropical forcing and local North Pacific atmosphere–ocean interactions, which operate on different time scales to drive similar PDO-like SST anomaly patterns. How these processes combine to generate the observed PDO evolution, including apparent regime shifts, is shown using simple autoregressive models of increasing spatial complexity. Simulations of recent climate in coupled GCMs are able to capture many aspects of the PDO, but do so based on a balance of ...