Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-161-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-161-2019
Research article
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21 Feb 2019
Research article |  | 21 Feb 2019

Long Island Sound temperature variability and its associations with the ridge–trough dipole and tropical modes of sea surface temperature variability

Justin A. Schulte and Sukyoung Lee

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Connections between Long Island Sound (LIS) water temperature variability and modes of tropical sea surface temperature (SST) variability have yet to be explored. It is shown that intense LIS cold-water temperature events are related to central equatorial Pacific SSTs. The decay phase of such events may be related to canonical El Niño events. Furthermore, a ridge–trough atmospheric pattern related to LIS water temperature variability fluctuates coherently with central equatorial Pacific SSTs.