The West Pacific pattern correlates with high pressure, increased temperature, decreased precipitation, and higher burned ...

The sun sets on the horizon of the Pacific ... El Niño and La Niña are opposing climate patterns that disrupt normal conditions in the Pacific Ocean. During normal conditions, trade winds ...

Unfortunately, most state-of-the-art climate models fail to reproduce the observed warming pattern of sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific over the last century. To further evaluate ...

This is because of a ridge of high pressure over the Pacific Ocean which will be very ... but the overall pattern is leaning towards the long stretches of sunshine leaving at that point.