Origin of upper-ocean warming and El Nino change on decadal scales in the tropical Pacific Ocean

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There is evidence that the Pacific upper-ocean warming and decadal changes in the El Nino/ Southern Oscillation after 1976 could originate from decadal mid-latitude variability. The North Pacific Ocean underwent a clear phase transition in the middle 1970s and a subsurface warm anomaly formed in the early 1970s at middle latitudes. The teleconnection of extratropical anomalies may help to improve prediction of decadal-scale climate variability.

El Nino, El Nino Current

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The ocean's productive deserts: The loss of photosynthetically generated carbon from the ocean's surface waters is a central mechanism in the global carbon cycle

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Emerson and colleagues have reported field estimates of the yearly average carbon flux leaving the subtropical surface ocean at a site in the North Pacific. They show that the carbon budget for the upper budget can be closed within error bars of plus or minus 50%. The new analysis is based on data from the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study's Hawaiian Ocean Time-series (HOT) programme.

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Increased dissolved oxygen in Pacific intermediate waters due to lower rates of carbon oxidation in sediments

Article Abstract:

Research is presented concerning the increased dissolved oxygen levels which have been measured in Pacific Ocean basins. The influence of climatically related changes on benthic oxygen levels is discussed.

Pacific Ocean, Letter to the Editor, Marine sediments

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