Talk:Climate pattern

OK, I don't like the identification of "climate pattern" and "mode of variability". I'd call summer being warmer than winter a climate pattern. But not a mode of variability. All the examples listed look like modes of var to me. Could we have the redirect the other way round, if they need to be linked William M. Connolley (talk) 10:21, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's how the source characterized it: "The pattern [thermohaline circulation] is the third most powerful mode of variability (hence, EOF No. 3), following variability associated with the annual cycle and El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO)."[1]

What we could do is have the article be about climate patterns in general, with a fat section specifically about modes of variability, and have the redirect mode of variability point to that section.--Father Goose (talk) 10:58, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't call it a climate pattern though :-). This is only a minor quibble by me. I don't mind much. Let's flesh out the article and see how it goes and worry about renaming it later if at all William M. Connolley (talk) 11:05, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]