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Nicholas Tyrrell added reason for 4yr period
over 8 years ago
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We know that the \href{http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/}{El Ni{\~n}o-Southern Oscillation} (ENSO) is the main source of year to year temperature variability in the
oceans. oceans and atmosphere. Through changes in winds and ocean currents it has the ability take up or release heat from the atmosphere. It doesn't really change the long-term temperature but can make one year hotter (El Ni{\~n}o) or cooler (La Ni{\n}a) than the next. ENSO occurs in the tropical Pacific but is strong enough to have a global influence.\\
We can take our climate model again but instead of assigning the
whole ocean temperature we just put in a "fake" El-Ni{\~n}o/La-Ni{\~n}a.
We make the tropical Pacific ocean temperatures go up and down - over
a period of four years - and let the rest of the ocean, and the land,
respond.\\ respond. The period of four years is related to the actual period ENSO, although the real world is much less regular than our model.\\
In this experiment, the global land surface temperature still
responds with amplified variability relative to the ocean; if the ocean surface temperature increases or decreases by $1^{\circ}$ the land temperature will increase or decrease by almost $1.5^{\circ}$. Essentially, we can