THE NORTHERN OSCILLATION AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS WITH SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALLS OVER THE EOUATORIAL PACIFIC

In a previous paper, the correlations of pressure anomalies between different regions over the north Pacific were analysed and it was shown that the pressure fluctuations have a pronounced out-of-phase tendency in the eastern and western north Pacific, i. e. while the pressure rises over the eastern part of the north Pacific it