… The influence of the extensive warm anomalies of sea surface temperature (SST) in the
central and eastern tropical Pacific associated with the El Niño–Southern Oscillation
phenomenon on the winter circulation in northern midlatitudes has been a subject of
intense study during the past decade. Not only do these SST anomalies represent a
particularly potent example of the type of … This approach is physically consistent with the
conceptual model of the deep tropical diabatic heating anomalies as the critical link …