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Global features of the Pacific-Japan Oscillation

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Global features of tropical convection, sea surface temperature (SST) and atmospheric circulation associated with the Pacific-Japan Oscillation (PJO) are examined by using monthly mean global data for 6 years (1979–1984). It is shown that the PJO is not a local phenomena limited to the western-Pacific but related to global-scale atmosphere-ocean variations.

The PJO highly correlates with interannual variations of SST in the tropical Pacific. During summers in which positive SST anomaly occurs in the tropical western Pacific, convective activity in the western Pacific especially near Philippines is strongly enhanced but that in the whole equatorial eastern Pacific is greatly suppressed due to negative SST anomaly in these areas.

The Walker circulation is intensified in the equatorial Pacific and twin cyclonic cells at 200 mb are generated in the subtropical Pacific of both hemispheres. Strong anticyclonic circulations take place in the northern middle latitudes extending from East China to Northwest Pacific. Anomalous circulations are also generated in the other extratropical regions in the both Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

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    Present address: Long-Range Forecast Division, Forecast Department, Japan Meteorological Agency, 1-3-4 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, 100, Tokyo, Japan

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Nitta, T. Global features of the Pacific-Japan Oscillation. Meteorl. Atmos. Phys. 41, 5–12 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01032585

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