SURFACE FLUXES
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Figure 15. Interannual variability (1950- 2000) of large scale climate indices.
sea interaction processes may be at work in the different ocean basins,
so after removal of the climatological means, they constructed zonally
averaged flux anomalies for the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. An
important caveat is that only the atmospheric state and SST datasets
vary throughout the 43 years. Other dataset have been extended back
in time using climatological annual cycles of monthly means from the
period of time for which they are available. There is no variability in
runoff.
The full variability of zonally averaged annual air-sea heat flux anomalies after 1983 is not noticeably different than the earlier partial variabil
suggesting that the radiation does not contribute much to interan
ity
nual
265
Figure 15. Interannual variability (1950- 2000) of large scale climate indices.
sea interaction processes may be at work in the different ocean basins,
so after removal of the climatological means, they constructed zonally
averaged flux anomalies for the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. An
important caveat is that only the atmospheric state and SST datasets
vary throughout the 43 years. Other dataset have been extended back
in time using climatological annual cycles of monthly means from the
period of time for which they are available. There is no variability in
runoff.
The full variability of zonally averaged annual air-sea heat flux anomalies after 1983 is not noticeably different than the earlier partial variabil
suggesting that the radiation does not contribute much to interan
ity
nual