Alberto M. Mestas-Nuñez

TL;DR: The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) as mentioned in this paper is a 65-80 year cycle with a 0.4 C range, referred to as the AMO by Kerr (2000).

TL;DR: The years 1995 to 2000 experienced the highest level of North Atlantic hurricane activity in the reliable record, and the present high level of hurricane activity is likely to persist for an additional ∼10 to 40 years.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the long-term records of basinwide Atlantic and U.S. landfalling hurricanes and normalized damage time series for interannual trends and multidecadal variability, and found that only weak linear trends can be ascribed to the hurricane activity and that multidimensional variability is more characteristic of the region.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied several kinds of analysis to sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) (1856-1991) to determine the degree to which SSTA of opposite sign in the tropical North and South Atlantic occur.

TL;DR: In this paper, a complex empirical orthogonal function (CEOF) analysis of sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) data from the midnineteenth century through 1991 is performed and the global ENSO from the SSTA data, plus a linear trend everywhere, are subsequently removed in order to consider other global modes of variability uncontaminated by the intra-and interbasin effects of ENSo.