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Here's a good source.
<http://www.learner.org/courses/envsci/unit/text.php?unit=3&secNum=0>.
See the pdf at the bottom.
On 8/18/2010 2:04 PM, Wayne Watson wrote:
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> Hi, it sounds like a toss up. Maybe La/El change in the course of a
> few months.
>
> Too bad the upper graph on the home page doesn't extend higher north.
> It looks like it ends around the Baja border. The lower map shows
> cold waters along the CA coast. It's too bad the dates cannot be
> changed on the upper graph.
>
> I'm just reading Merchants of Doubts. It's about individuals,
> organizations, and institutes who willing try to cast doubt on science
> findings (funded by Corps), particularly when science gets involved in
> regulation. Product and useful discovery, OK by them. It starts with
> a Dr. Satner, UCBerkley, who recently quite convincingly showed CC/GW
> is caused by man. He suffered a horrific attack by the doubters. Only
> recently has he had time to continue his research.
>
> On 8/18/2010 10:27 AM, Charlie Carlson wrote:
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>> Hi Wayne,
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>> You right we're not experiencing profound variations in sea surface
>> temperatures that would indicate either Le or La. However, the jet
>> stream and its Rossby waves are for some reason locked in an unusual
>> state. This has tended to set up upper level atmospheric support for
>> a consistent eastern Pacific high pressure and western continental
>> low, and a corresponding strong and consistent onshore flow. Why
>> this is occurring is not clear and likely related to other
>> co-occurring climate weather anomalies: heat in central Russia,
>> severe monsoons in Pakistan, and heat wave on the East Coast, etc.
>> We'll probably no more in several years as the forcing factors and
>> analysis becomes clearer.
>>
>> We've had an extended "June/July" in San Francisco, this year.
>> C
>> On Aug 18, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Wayne Watson wrote:
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>>> As I understand it, the Calif. coast has had colder weather this
>>> summer in the northern part, and warmer in the south. I heard
>>> someone say we are experiencing La Nina, but I don't think so, El
>>> Nino. How do climatologist call the shot on this? Book, website?
>>> Lots of stuff out there, but I've found nothing on this question.
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