Global Oceans

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• Journal Title:
  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
• Personal Author:
  Johnson, Gregory C. ; Lumpkin, Rick ; Boyer, Tim ; Bringas, Francis ; Cetinić, Ivona ; Chambers, Don P. ; Cheng, Lijing ; Dong, Shenfu ; Feely, Richard A. ; Fox-Kemper, Baylor ; Frajka-Williams, Eleanor ; Franz, Bryan A. ; Fu, Yao ; Gao, Meng ; Garg, Jay ; Gilson, John ; Goni, Gustavo ; Hamlington, Benjamin D. ; Hewitt, Helene T. ; Hobbs, William R. ; Hu, Zeng-Zhen ; Huang, Boyin ; Jevrejeva, Svetlana ; Johns, William E. ; Katsunari, Sato ; Kennedy, John J. ; Kersalé, Marion ; Killick, Rachel E. ; Leuliette, Eric ; Locarnini, Ricardo ; Lozier, M. Susan ; Lyman, John M. ; Merrifield, Mark A. ; Mishonov, Alexey ; Mitchum, Gary T. ; Moat, Ben I. ; Nerem, R. Steven ; Notz, Dirk ; Perez, Renellys C. ; Purkey, Sarah G. ; Rayner, Darren ; Reagan, James ; Schmid, Claudia ; Siegel, David A. ; Smeed, David A. ; Stackhouse, Paul W. ; Sweet, William ; Thompson, Philip R. ; Volkov, Denis L. ; Wanninkhof, Rik ; Weller, Robert A. ; Wen, Caihong ; Westberry, Toby K. ; Widlansky, Matthew J. ; Willis, Josh K. ; Yu, Lisan ; Zhang, Huai-Min
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; PMEL (Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory) ; AOML (Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory) ; NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information) ; NWS (National Weather Service) ; NCEP (National Centers for Environmental Prediction) ; CIMAS (Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies) ; CIMAR (Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research) ; CISESS (Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies) ; CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) ; NOS (National Ocean Service) ; CO-OPS (Center for Operational Oceanographic Products & Services)
• Description:
  Patterns of variability in ocean properties are often closely related to large-scale climate pattern indices, and 2021 is no exception. The year 2021 started and ended with La Niña conditions, charmingly dubbed a “double-dip” La Niña. Hence, stronger-than-normal easterly trade winds in the tropical south Pacific drove westward surface current anomalies in the equatorial Pacific; reduced sea surface temperature (SST) and upper ocean heat content in the eastern tropical Pacific; increased sea level, upper ocean heat content, and salinity in the western tropical Pacific; resulted in a rim of anomalously high chlorophyll-a (Chla) on the poleward and westward edges of the anomalously cold SST wedge in the eastern equatorial Pacific; and increased precipitation over the Maritime Continent.
• Keywords:
  Climatic Changes Ocean Climatic Changes Atmospheric Science
• Source:
  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 103(8), S143-S192
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0072.1
• ISSN:
  0003-0007 ; 1520-0477
• Format:
  PDF
• Publisher:
  American Meteorological Society
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Rights Information:
  Other
• Compliance:
  Submitted
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