ENSO Teleconnections and the North Atlantic Ocean An Exercise in ...

Conclusions
• ENSO has areas of significant correlation
against SSTA in the North Atlantic
• ENSO doesn't seem to contribute significantly
to the NAO, instead may act to weaken it
• Atmospheric processes appear to generate a
negative SSTA correlation in the subtropical
North Atlantic
• This perturbation then evolves into a region of
positive correlation
• Gulf Stream dynamics are difficult to extract
from a 1-year lag study, especially if ENSO's
signal is felt at an average lag of 2 years
• Correlation studies are useful tools, but
require much more work and insight to isolate
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the responsible dynamics