Ocean Science www.ocean-sci.net 1812-0784 1812-0792 5 3 2009 10.5194/os-5-293-2009 http://www.ocean-sci.net/5/293/2009/ http://www.ocean-sci.net/5/293/2009/os-5-293-2009.html http://www.ocean-sci.net/5/293/2009/os-5-293-2009.pdf 293 301 2009-07-27 Frequency- or amplitude-dependent effects of the Atlantic meridional overturning on the tropical Pacific Ocean G. J. van Oldenborgh L. A. te Raa H. A. Dijkstra S. Y. Philip Royal Netherlands Institute of Meteorology, De Bilt, The Netherlands Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands currently at: Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO, The Hague, The Netherlands Using the ECHAM5/MPI-OM model, we study the relation between the variations in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) and both the Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) amplitude. 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