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Article: The North Pacific Oscillation-West Pacific Teleconnection Pattern: Mature-Phase Structure and Winter Impacts
- Article from:
- Journal of Climate
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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ABSTRACT
The North Pacific Oscillation (NPO) in sea level pressure and its upper-air geopotential height signature, the west Pacific (WP) teleconnection pattern, constitute a prominent mode of winter midlatitude variability, the NPO/WP. Its mature-phase expression is identified from principal component analysis of monthly sea level pressure variability as the second leading mode just behind the Pacific-North American variability pattern.
NPO/WP variability, primarily on subseasonal time scales, is characterized by a large-scale meridional dipole in SLP and geopotential height over the Pacific and is linked to meridional movements of the Asian-Pacific jet and Pacific storm track modulation. ...