Talk:Arctic oscillation

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Weather pattern instead of climate pattern

The current article text contains the quote:

"The harsh winter weather was attributed to a negative Arctic Oscillation, which is a climate pattern that influences weather in the Northern Hemisphere."

While I am not at all saying that a quote should be altered, I think this quote warrants a comment to the effect of:

"A negative Arctic Oscillation is not a climate pattern (and does not even seem to be much of an oscillation, seeing that it is called negative) but a weather pattern, since it is a transient weather pattern, i.e. one that does not occur (consistently) on climatological time scales."

I lack enough specialist knowledge in the field to object to the "Arctic Oscillation" (without the adjective "negative") being called a climate pattern. The oscillation itself might well be a climate pattern, particularly if it can be ascribed to or even is a direct physical phenomenon rather than a by-product of several separate physical phenomena.Redav (talk) 13:39, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]