HR: 08:30h
AN: PP21C-03    [Abstracts]
TI: Tropical-Extratropical Connections in Response to Obliquity Variations
AU: * Philander, G
EM: gphlder@princeton.edu
AF: Princeton University, AOS Program, 205 Sayre Hall, Forrestal Campus, Princeton, NJ 08540
AU: Federov, A
EM: alexey.fedorov@yale.edu
AF: Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, PO Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520
AB: An increase in obliquity causes the intensity of sunlight to increase in high latitudes and to decrease in the tropics. Recent observational evidence that equatorial sea surface temperatures increase when obliquity increases provides a test for theories concerning the role of tropical-extratropical atmospheric and oceanic connections in climate fluctuations. This presentation briefly reviews the observations and theories.
DE: 3339 Ocean/atmosphere interactions (0312, 4504)
DE: 3344 Paleoclimatology
DE: 4267 Paleoceanography
DE: 4522 El Ni¤o
SC: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology [PP]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting