Regular variations in the winter atmospheric pressure over the northern Atlantic Ocean are associated with the ____

a. ?Polar Vortex oscillation
b. ?North American oscillation
c. ?Arctic oscillation
d. ?Atlantic multidecadal oscillation
e. ?North Atlantic oscillation


ANSWER: a

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