{"id":8159,"date":"2016-08-29T15:56:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T19:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8159"},"modified":"2016-08-29T15:56:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T19:56:14","slug":"what-is-the-pacific-decadal-oscillation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/08\/what-is-the-pacific-decadal-oscillation\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Pacific Decadal Oscillation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this blog I talk a lot about El Ni\u00f1o, La Ni\u00f1a and ENSO and their impacts on the climate of the Southeast, which are statistically quite significant, at least in winter. \u00a0But there are other atmospheric oscillations that can also affect climate over time. \u00a0One of these other oscillations is the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. \u00a0The PDO is also related to wide-scale ocean temperature oscillations, but they occur on a longer time scale than the ENSO oscillations. \u00a0This article explains what the PDO is and how it relates to ENSO and to the climate in the Southeast:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/enso\/going-out-ice-cream-first-date-pacific-decadal-oscillation\">https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/enso\/going-out-ice-cream-first-date-pacific-decadal-oscillation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/PDO_timeseries_ersstv4_620.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8160\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/PDO_timeseries_ersstv4_620-300x176.png\" alt=\"PDO_timeseries_ersstv4_620\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/PDO_timeseries_ersstv4_620-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/PDO_timeseries_ersstv4_620-235x138.png 235w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/PDO_timeseries_ersstv4_620.png 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this blog I talk a lot about El Ni\u00f1o, La Ni\u00f1a and ENSO and their impacts on the climate of the Southeast, which are statistically quite significant, at least in winter. \u00a0But there are other atmospheric oscillations that can also affect climate over time. \u00a0One of these other oscillations is the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8161,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159\/revisions\/8161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}