On Monday, Jan 31, I will give my first lecture of the semester. The Course OCN310 is for undergraduate students at U. Hawaii, and the lecture on "Climate Variability" usually covers ENSO (El Nino-Southern Oscillation) and PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation). One tends to start such a lecture with a picture showing fire burning over Australia, a typical case during El Nino, but not this time.
I will start with "Climate Change" vs. "Weather" that we experience daily (since a senior-citizen student asked me this question last week). Then, I will use a photo from "2010-2011 Queensland Floods" to lead to ENSO, and a weather map for Jan. 31 (indicating snow storm for US's midsection) to explain briefly the impact of negative AO (Arctic Oscillation) Index ...