Sea Surface Temperature and Local Weather

C. S. Ramage Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu 96822

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Abstract

Parameterizations in numerical models of the general atmospheric circulation accord with the hypothesis advanced by lchiye and Petersen and Bjerknes—high sea surface temperatures “cause” high local rainfall. Observations at Canton Island and elsewhere in the tropics fail to support this attractively simple idea.

Abstract

Parameterizations in numerical models of the general atmospheric circulation accord with the hypothesis advanced by lchiye and Petersen and Bjerknes—high sea surface temperatures “cause” high local rainfall. Observations at Canton Island and elsewhere in the tropics fail to support this attractively simple idea.

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