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Recent Publications on Decadal Variability

Please check the DecVar bibliography for a more complete list of published articles and abstracts.

The full text of any of the AMS journal papers below can be found on the bibliography in the documents section on DecVar.

• Ashok K., W.-L. Chan, T. Motoi, T. Yamagata (2004), Decadal variability of the Indian Ocean dipole, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L24207, doi:10.1029/2004GL021345.

• Bograd S. J., D. G. Foley, F. B. Schwing, C. Wilson, R. M. Laurs, J. J. Polovina, E. A. Howell, R. E. Brainard (2004), On the seasonal and interannual migrations of the transition zone chlorophyll front, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L17204, doi:10.1029/2004GL020637.

• Bonfils C., A. Angert, C. C. Henning, S. Biraud, S. C. Doney, I. Fung (2005), Extending the record of photosynthetic activity in the eastern United States into the presatellite period using surface diurnal temperature range, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L08405, doi:10.1029/2005GL022583.

• Caires, S. and A. Sterl. 2005: 100-Year Return Value Estimates for Ocean Wind Speed and Significant Wave Height from the ERA-40 Data. Journal of Climate: Vol. 18, No. 7, pp. 1032-1048.

• Chiang, John C. H. and Daniel J. Vimont. 2004: Analogous Pacific and Atlantic Meridional Modes of Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean Variability. Journal of Climate: Vol. 17, No. 21, pp. 4143-4158.

• Cohen, Judah, Allan Frei and Richard D. Rosen. 2005: The Role of Boundary Conditions in AMIP-2 Simulations of the NAO. Journal of Climate: Vol. 18, No. 7, pp. 973-981.

• Crüger T., H. Fischer, H. von Storch (2004), What do accumulation records of single ice cores in Greenland represent?, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D21110, doi:10.1029/2004JD005014.

• Déry S. J., E. F. Wood (2004), Teleconnection between the Arctic Oscillation and Hudson Bay river discharge, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L18205, doi:10.1029/2004GL020729.

• Garcia H. E., T. P. Boyer, S. Levitus, R. A. Locarnini, J. Antonov (2005), On the variability of dissolved oxygen and apparent oxygen utilization content for the upper world ocean: 1955 to 1998, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L09604, doi:10.1029/2004GL022286.

• Goodrich, Gregory B. 2004: Influence of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on Arizona Winter Precipitation during Years of Neutral ENSO. Weather and Forecasting: Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 950-953.

• Goosse H., T. J. Crowley, E. Zorita, C. M. Ammann, H. Renssen, E. Driesschaert (2005), Modelling the climate of the last millennium: What causes the differences between simulations?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L06710, doi:10.1029/2005GL022368.

• Gray, Stephen T., Christopher L. Fastie, Stephen T. Jackson and Julio L. Betancourt. 2004: Tree-Ring-Based Reconstruction of Precipitation in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, since 1260 A.D. Journal of Climate: Vol. 17, No. 19, pp. 3855-3865.

• Gutzler, David S. 2004: An Index of Interannual Precipitation Variability in the Core of the North American Monsoon Region. Journal of Climate: Vol. 17, No. 22, pp. 4473-4480.

• Hickey, Hannah and Andrew J. Weaver. 2004: The Southern Ocean as a Source Region for Tropical Atlantic Variability. Journal of Climate: Vol. 17, No. 20, pp. 3960-3972.

• Johnson G. C., J. L. Bullister, N. Gruber (2005), Labrador Sea Water property variations in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L07602, doi:10.1029/2005GL022404.

• Lee T. (2004), Decadal weakening of the shallow overturning circulation in the South Indian Ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L18305, doi:10.1029/2004GL020884.

• Karspeck Alicia R., Richard Seager and Mark A. Cane. 2004: Predictability of Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability in an Intermediate Model. Journal of Climate: Vol. 17, No. 14, pp. 2842-2850.

• Kwon Y.-O., S. C. Riser (2004), North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water: A history of ocean-atmosphere interaction 1961-2000, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L19307, doi:10.1029/2004GL021116.

• Kucharik, Christopher J. and Navin Ramankutty. 2005: Trends and Variability in U.S. Corn Yields Over the Twentieth Century. Earth Interactions: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1-29.

• MacDonald G. M., R. A. Case (2005), Variations in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation over the past millennium, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L08703, doi:10.1029/2005GL022478.

• Meehl, Gerald A., Warren M. Washington, Caspar M. Ammann, Julie M. Arblaster, T. M. L. Wigley and Claudia Tebaldi. 2004: Combinations of Natural and Anthropogenic Forcings in Twentieth-Century Climate. Journal of Climate: Vol. 17, No. 19, pp. 3721-3727.

• Meinke, Holger, Peter deVoil, Graeme L. Hammer, Scott Power, Robert Allan, Roger C. Stone, Chris Folland and Andries Potgieter. 2005: Rainfall Variability at Decadal and Longer Time Scales: Signal or Noise?. Journal of Climate: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 89-96.

• Mendelssohn R., F. B. Schwing, S. J. Bograd (2004), Nonstationary seasonality of upper ocean temperature in the California Current, J. Geophys. Res., 109, C10015, doi:10.1029/2004JC002330.

• Minobe S., F. Jin (2004), Generation of interannual and interdecadal climate oscillations through nonlinear subharmonic resonance in delayed oscillators, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L16206, doi:10.1029/2004GL019776.

• Minobe, Shoshiro, Akinori Sako and Makoto Nakamura. 2004: Interannual to Interdecadal Variability in the Japan Sea Based on a New Gridded Upper Water Temperature Dataset. Journal of Physical Oceanography: Vol. 34, No. 11, pp. 2382-2397.

• Norris J. R. (2005), Multidecadal changes in near-global cloud cover and estimated cloud cover radiative forcing, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D08206, doi:10.1029/2004JD005600.

• Overland, James E., Michael C. Spillane, Donald B. Percival, Muyin Wang and Harold O. Mofjeld. 2004: Seasonal and Regional Variation of Pan-Arctic Surface Air Temperature over the Instrumental Record*. Journal of Climate: Vol. 17, No. 17, pp. 3263-3282.

• Pagano, Thomas and David Garen. 2005: A Recent Increase in Western U.S. Streamflow Variability and Persistence. Journal of Hydrometeorology: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 173-179.

• Palacios D. M., S. J. Bograd, R. Mendelssohn, F. B. Schwing (2004), Long-term and seasonal trends in stratification in the California Current, 1950-1993, J. Geophys. Res., 109, C10016, doi:10.1029/2004JC002380.

• Park, W. and M. Latif. 2005: Ocean Dynamics and the Nature of Air-Sea Interactions over the North Atlantic at Decadal Time Scales. Journal of Climate: Vol. 18, No. 7, pp. 982-995.

• Pohlmann, Holger, Michael Botzet, Mojib Latif, Andreas Roesch, Martin Wild and Peter Tschuck. 2004: Estimating the Decadal Predictability of a Coupled AOGCM. Journal of Climate: Vol. 17, No. 22, pp. 4463-4472.

• Roark E. B., T. P. Guilderson, S. Flood-Page, R. B. Dunbar, B. L. Ingram, S. J. Fallon, M. McCulloch (2005), Radiocarbon-based ages and growth rates of bamboo corals from the Gulf of Alaska, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L04606, doi:10.1029/2004GL021919.

• Rodgers, Keith B., Petra Friederichs and Mojib Latif. 2004: Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability and Its Relation to Decadal Modulations of ENSO. Journal of Climate: Vol. 17, No. 19, pp. 3761-3774.

• Rodionov, S. N., J. E. Overland and N. A. Bond. 2005: The Aleutian Low and Winter Climatic Conditions in the Bering Sea. Part I: Classification. Journal of Climate: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 160-177.

• Swift J. H., K. Aagaard, L. Timokhov, E. G. Nikiforov (2005), Long-term variability of Arctic Ocean waters: Evidence from a reanalysis of the EWG data set, J. Geophys. Res., 110, C03012, doi:10.1029/2004JC002312.

• Wetzel P., A. Winguth, E. Maier-Reimer (2005), Sea-to-air CO 2 flux from 1948 to 2003: A model study, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 19, GB2005, doi:10.1029/2004GB002339.

• Wu, Lixin and Zhengyu Liu. 2005: North Atlantic Decadal Variability: Air-Sea Coupling, Oceanic Memory, and Potential Northern Hemisphere Resonance*. Journal of Climate: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 331-349.

• Xiao C., P. A. Mayewski, D. Qin, Z. Li, M. Zhang, Y. Yan (2004), Sea level pressure variability over the southern Indian Ocean inferred from a glaciochemical record in Princess Elizabeth Land, east Antarctica, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D16101, doi:10.1029/2003JD004065.

• Yeager, Stephen G. and William G. Large. 2004: Late-Winter Generation of Spiciness on Subducted Isopycnals. Journal of Physical Oceanography: Vol. 34, No. 7, pp. 1528-1547.

• Yeh S.-W., B. P. Kirtman (2005), Pacific decadal variability and decadal ENSO amplitude modulation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L05703, doi:10.1029/2004GL021731.