US Climate Variability and Predictability Program

Pacific Ocean

Frequencies of co-occurrence of marine and terrestrial extreme events.
Will compound marine heatwave-drought events along the West Coast become more frequent in the future?
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Are long-term changes in mixed layer depth influencing North Pacific marine heatwaves?
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Contrasting recent and future changes in the Intertropical Convergence Zone
Six US maps with color modeling
US precipitation modulated by MJO-ENSO teleconnection interference
Saildrone: Adaptively sampling the marine environment
Saildrone: Adaptively sampling the marine environment
Schematic representation of the (a) atmospheric “non-frontal” and (b) atmospheric “frontal” components
New perspectives regarding Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Extension influence on the atmosphere
Subsurface ocean heat content anomalies regressed onto low-pass filtered time series of eastern tropical Pacific sea surface temperature anomalies. The black boxes outline the eastern (10°–20°S, 100°–120°E) and western (10°–20°S, 50°–90°E) Indian Ocean, showing the east–west dipole structure.
Pacific influences decadal Indian Ocean heat content via two distinct mechanisms
SST anomalies in the boreal winter
Increasing coupling of Pacific dynamics leads to prolonged marine heatwaves
Atmospheric river moisture transport to the West Coast of the US
Origins of atmospheric river moisture traced in model
Changes in SST variance of ENSO
Is El Niño really changing?
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