Paper Writing Can Be a ...

So I am in the middle of writing two journal articles, and it is slow going.

Paper #1 - A New Paradigm for Pacific Decadal Variability - This paper examines offering another framework of examining climate variability in the Pacific Ocean looking at the North Pacific Oscillation and the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation.  Traditional views observe Pacific Decadal Variability as being  both intrinsic in the North Pacific (Aleutian Low variability) as well as having a forcing component from the tropics (ENSO/the atmospheric bridge).  This new framework works differently - it focuses on extratropical North Pacific forcing of the tropical Pacific and possible feedbacks that way.

Paper #2 - Past and Future Changes in Pacific Climate Variability in the IPCC Models - this paper focuses on assessing climate variability modes in the observations and then seeing how the various IPCC models capture those modes.  Bottom line - the models are terrible and only a select few really capture the right spatial and temporal scale of these modes.

So, it's a lot of writing to do and lots of stuff to be involved in.  I really want to get both papers done in the next 2 months, so we'll see!