Seminar
Background materials for Sarachik and Battisti seminar - April 8, 2003
1. The Visser, Thunell, and Stott paper in NATURE for 9 January on "The
Magnitude and timing of temperature change in the Indo-Pacific warm pool
during
deglaciation" which suggests that the Tropical Pacific plays a role
in driving glacial-interglacial cycles.
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v421/n6919/abs/nature01297_fs.html
2. Richard Kerr's news story in SCIENCE (Kerr 299(5605):336b, 17 January 2003
[http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/299/5605/336b])
concerning the relationship between volcanic eruptions and El Niños and
references to work by Mark Cane and Amy Clement (Science, 275, 14 Feb 1997 [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/275/5302/957]),
which argues for split impacts of global warming on the Pacific, i.e., warm in
the West but cool (La Niña-like) in the East.
3. The news story (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/299/5607/636) and the paper in SCIENCE for 31 January by Martin Hoerling and Arun Kumar on "The Perfect Ocean for Drought" (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/299/5607/691), which argues that the widely distributed droughts of 1998-2002 were linked by a combination of cold SST's in the eastern Tropical Pacific and warm SST's in the western Tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans.