Southern Hemisphere Origins of the 1976 Climate Shift Academic Article

abstract

• Observations from the tropical Pacific Ocean identify an abrupt climate shift in 1976 with surface temperatures changing from cooler than normal to warmer than normal in the span of about 1 year. Model results show that this climate shift originates with subsurface temperature anomalies in the south tropical Pacific Ocean which propagate first to the western boundary, then northward to the equator, and finally eastward along the equator to 140W where they rise to the surface. The results suggest that changes in the North Pacific respond to changes in the tropical Pacific.

authors

• Giese, Benjamin

published proceedings

• GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

altmetric score

• 1

author list (cited authors)

• Giese, B. S., Urizar, S. C., & Fuckar, N. S.

citation count

• 124

complete list of authors

• Giese, BS||Urizar, SC||Fuckar, NS

publication date

• January 2002

publisher

• American Geophysical Union (AGU)  Publisher

published in

• Geophysical Research Letters  Journal

keywords

• 13 Climate Action
• 37 Earth Sciences
• 3701 Atmospheric Sciences
• 3708 Oceanography

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1029/2001GL013268

start page

• 1-1-1-4

volume

• 29

issue

• 2

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1029%2F2001gl013268

user-defined tag

• 13 Climate Action