Category Archives: SSTs

Predicting changes in North Atlantic temperatures

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Jon Robson

The Earth is a complex system of interacting components, such as the atmosphere and ocean, which produce a wide variety of natural variability. This natural variability ensures that the evolution of a particular region’s climate, e.g. that of Western Europe, … Continue reading →

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What is a year?

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Ed Hawkins

A rather surprising question perhaps, but the answer is, ‘it depends’. There is no climatic reason to define a year from January to December, but that is what is generally done. But, is this the best definition?

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Arctic predictability

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Ed Hawkins

After attending a recent workshop on Arctic predictability, I thought a brief discussion on sea-ice variability and potential predictability might be of interest.

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Atlantic multi-decadal variability

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Ed Hawkins

Observations of Atlantic SSTs show significant multi-decadal variability since 1870 (see red line in figure 2 below), often termed the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation (AMO), though there is no clear evidence that it is really an ‘oscillation’.

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