GC53F-1280
AIRS Sea Surface Temperature and Pacific Decadal Oscillation
Friday, 18 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Luke L Chen, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Abstract:
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) has been providing necessary measurements for long term atmospheric and surface processes aboard NASA’ s Aqua polar orbiter since May 2002. Here, we use time series of AIRS sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies to show the time evolution of Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) in the Gulf of Alaska (lon:-144.5, lat:54.5) from 2003 to 2014. PDO is connected to the first mode of North Pacific SST variability and is tele-connected to ENSO in the tropics. Further analysis of AIRS data can provide clarification of Pacific climate variability.
