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DOI | 10.1007/s00382-017-4051-9 |
Diversity of moderate El Nino events evolution: role of air-sea interactions in the eastern tropical Pacific | |
Dewitte, Boris1,2,3,4; Takahashi, Ken5 | |
2019-06-01 | |
发表期刊 | CLIMATE DYNAMICS |
ISSN | 0930-7575 |
EISSN | 1432-0894 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 52期号:12页码:7455-7476 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Chile; France; Peru |
英文摘要 | In this paper we investigate the evolution of moderate El Nino events during their developing phase with the objective to understand why some of them did not evolve as extreme events despite favourable conditions for the non-linear amplification of the Bjerknes feedback (i.e. warm SST in Austral winter in the eastern equatorial Pacific). Among the moderate events, two classes are considered consisting in the Eastern Pacific (EP) El Nino events and Central Pacific (CP) events. We first show that the observed SST variability across moderate El Nino events (i.e. inter-event variability) is largest in the far eastern Pacific (east of similar to 130 degrees W) in the Austral winter prior to their peak, which is associated to either significant warm anomaly (moderate EP El Nino) or an anomaly between weak warm and cold (moderate CP El Nino) as reveals by the EOF analysis of the SST anomaly evolution during the development phase of El Nino across the El Nino years. Singular value decomposition (SVD) analysis of SST and wind stress anomalies across the El Nino years further indicates that the inter-event SST variability is associated with an air-sea mode explaining 31% of the covariance between SST and wind stress. The associated SST pattern consists in SST anomalies developing along the coast of Ecuador in Austral fall and expanding westward as far as 130 degrees W in Austral winter. The associated wind stress pattern features westerlies (easterlies) west of similar to 130 degrees W along the equator peaking around June-August for EP (CP) El Nino events. This air-sea mode is interpreted as resulting from a developing seasonal Bjerknes feedback for EP El Nino events since it is shown to be associated to a Kelvin wave response at its peak phase. However equatorial easterlies east of 130 degrees W emerge in September that counters the growing SST anomalies associated to the air-sea mode. These have been particularly active during both the 1972 and the 2015 El Nino events. It is shown that the easterlies are connected to an off-equatorial southerly wind off the coast of Peru and Ecuador. The southerly wind is a response to the coastal SST anomalies off Peru developing from Austral fall. Implications of our results for the understanding of the seasonal ENSO dynamics and diversity are discussed in the light of the analysis of two global climate models simulating realistically ENSO diversity(GFDL_CM2.1 and CESM). |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000469017000020 |
WOS关键词 | COUPLED CLIMATE MODELS ; SURFACE TEMPERATURE ; BOUNDARY-LAYER ; OCEAN ; ENSO ; REANALYSIS ; ANOMALIES ; FREQUENCY ; FLAVORS |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/183520 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.CEAZA, Coquimbo, Chile; 2.Univ Catolica Norte, Dept Biol, Fac Ciencias Mar, Coquimbo, Chile; 3.Millennium Nucleus Ecol & Sustainable Management, Coquimbo, Chile; 4.Lab Etud Geophys & Oceanog Spatiales, Toulouse, France; 5.Inst Geofis Peru, Lima, Peru |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Dewitte, Boris,Takahashi, Ken. Diversity of moderate El Nino events evolution: role of air-sea interactions in the eastern tropical Pacific[J]. CLIMATE DYNAMICS,2019,52(12):7455-7476. |
APA | Dewitte, Boris,&Takahashi, Ken.(2019).Diversity of moderate El Nino events evolution: role of air-sea interactions in the eastern tropical Pacific.CLIMATE DYNAMICS,52(12),7455-7476. |
MLA | Dewitte, Boris,et al."Diversity of moderate El Nino events evolution: role of air-sea interactions in the eastern tropical Pacific".CLIMATE DYNAMICS 52.12(2019):7455-7476. |
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