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Kenyon, K.E. (1977) A Large-Scale Longitudinal Variation in Surface Temperature in the North Pacific. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 7, 256-263, Fig. 6.

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• TITLE: Double North Pacific High in Summer

  AUTHORS: Kern E. Kenyon

  KEYWORDS: Double North Pacific High, Double SST Maxima

  JOURNAL NAME: Natural Science, Vol.8 No.5, May 26, 2016

  ABSTRACT: An example of sea level pressure (SLP) and sea surface temperature (SST) is displayed for a summer month based on historical monthly mean data for the North Pacific. A double North Pacific High (NPH) co-occurred with a double large-scale SST maximum along 40 N. Centers of the two NPHs had very nearly the same longitudes as did the SST maxima. Seven similar coincidences happened within the 30-year records. These particular associations between extrema of SLPs and SSTs enhance a previously published conjecture that single and double NPHs are caused by heat transfer from the sea surface to the atmosphere. The eastern SST maximum is the signature of a permanent wide warm surface current flowing northeast off California. To the west of it in the summer is a transient wide warm surge of surface water flowing north as it crosses mid-latitudes. These are the heat sources that generate the single and double NPHs.