Ocean Response and Feedback to the SST Dipole in the Tropical Atlantic* From: Journal of Physical Oceanography | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: Frankignoul, Claude; Phillips, Helen E; Yang, Jiayan; Joyce, Terrence M | Copyright American Meteorological Society Nov 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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The equatorial SST dipole represents a mode of climate variability in the tropical Atlantic Ocean that is closely tied to cross-equatorial flow in the atmosphere, from the cold to the warm hemisphere. It has been suggested that this mode is sustained by a positive feedback of the tropical winds on the cross-equatorial SST gradient. The role, if any, of the tropical ocean is the focus of this investigation, which shows that at the latitudes of the SST signal (centered on 10°N/...

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