Empirical Investigation on the Relationship Between Climate and Small Pelagic Global Regimes and el Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

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by

Daniel B. Lluch-Cota
Sergio Hernández-Vázquez
and
Salvador E. Lluch-Cota

FAO Fisheries Circular No. 934

FIRM/C934
ISSN 0429-9329

Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C.
P.O. Box 128, La Paz B.C.S., México, C.P. 23000

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, November 1997

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PREPARATION OF THIS DOCUMENT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABSTRACT

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. Small pelagic regimes
1.2. Climate variability

2. DATA AND METHODS

3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

3.1. Global climate regimes

3.1.1. Identification of global climate regimes
3.1.2. Global climate regimes as reflected by wide-coverage air temperature series
3.1.3. Climate regimes and El Niño relative strength and frequency
3.1.4. Climate regimes as reflected by the SOI index
3.1.5. Decadal scale El Niño relative strength and frequency and the SOI

3.2. Small pelagic regimes

3.2.1. Definition of small pelagic regimes
3.2.2. Small pelagic regimes and global climate regimes
3.2.3. Small pelagic regimes and tropical-extratropical interdecadal variability
3.2.4. Small pelagic regimes and regional interdecadal climate variability

4. SUMMARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY