@Article{KayanoAndr:2003:PrSeTe,
               author = "Kayano, Mary Toshie and Andreoli, Rita Valeria",
          affiliation = "INPE/ Centro de Previsao de Tempo e Estudos Climaticos, 
                         BR-12227010 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, Brazil",
                title = "Propagation of the sea-surface temperature anomalies in the 
                         Tropical Atlantic.",
              journal = "Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics",
                 year = "2003",
               volume = "84",
               number = "3-4",
                pages = "275--284",
                month = "Oct.",
             keywords = "Climatic Variability, meridional modes, ocean, equatorial.",
             abstract = "The evolving modes of the sea-surface temperature (SST) in the 
                         Tropical Atlantic on the short interannual (IA) timescale were 
                         obtained by performing the extended empirical orthogonal function 
                         (EEOF) analyses on this variable separately for the 106-year 
                         (1871-1976) and 20-year (1881-1900; 1901-1920; 1921-1940; 
                         1941-1960) periods. The equatorial and inter-hemispheric patterns 
                         manifest in the first EEOF mode of each analysis as part of the 
                         short IA evolution of the SST anomalies in the Tropical Atlantic. 
                         Another outstanding feature of the first EEOF mode of each 
                         analysis concerns the propagations of the SST anomalies in the 
                         meridional direction within the 20degrees N-20degreesS band and in 
                         the zonal direction in the sector 40degreesW-20degrees W. For all 
                         analyses, the SST anomalies propagate northward from the equator 
                         to 15degreesN and southward from 20degreesN to 15degreesN, with 
                         the same sign anomalies merging approximately at 15degreesN. On 
                         the other hand, the SST anomalies propagate westward in the sector 
                         40degreesW-20degrees W with a propagation rate close to that of 
                         the phase speed of the fastest baroclinic Rossby wave in the 
                         ocean. So, the observed propagations of the SST anomalies in the 
                         20degreesN-20degreesS band might result from the combined effect 
                         of the surface oceanic currents in this band and the baroclinic 
                         Rossby waves in the ocean.",
           copyholder = "SID/SCD",
                 issn = "0177-7971",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "Kayano_Propagation of the sea-surface temperature",
        urlaccessdate = "26 abr. 2024"
}