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Section 2.3 Interannual Variability
El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) (i) Observations (ii) Theory for ENSO (iii) Impacts Interannual variability in Atlantic SSTs The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)
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Section 2.3.1 (ii) Theory of ENSO
The “Bjerknes Feedback”: A mechanism for growth of El Nino or La Nina
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Fig.1 Schematic of Ekman Spiral in the Ocean
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Fig.2 SSTs in Pacific in Dec
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Fig.3 From S.-P. Xie (U Hawaii)
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ENSO mechanism: the Bjerknes feedback
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Bjerknes feedback - equatorial sections
El Niño La Niña atmos ocean longitude longitude Fig.5
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