Jacob Bjerknes was responsible for
A) discovering the connection between barometric pressure across the Pacific Ocean and the amount of rain falling during Asian monsoons.
B) discovering that reduced barometric pressure in the eastern Pacific Ocean was accompanied by increased barometric pressure in the western Pacific.
C) proposing a model that coupled the gradient in sea surface temperature across the central Pacific Ocean with a large-scale atmospheric circulation system.
D) showing the relationship between El Niño events and the invasion of the Great Salt Lake by the predaceous insect Trichocorixa verticalis.
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