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DOI | 10.1007/s00382-017-3943-z |
On the relationship between Atlantic Nio variability and ocean dynamics | |
Dippe, Tina1; Greatbatch, Richard J.1,2; Ding, Hui3,4 | |
2018-07-01 | |
发表期刊 | CLIMATE DYNAMICS |
ISSN | 0930-7575 |
EISSN | 1432-0894 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 51页码:597-612 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Germany; USA |
英文摘要 | The Atlantic Nio is the dominant mode of interannual sea surface temperature (SST) variability in the eastern equatorial Atlantic. Current coupled global climate models struggle to reproduce its variability. This is thought to be partly related to an equatorial SST bias that inhibits summer cold tongue growth. Here, we address the question whether the equatorial SST bias affects the ability of a coupled global climate model to produce realistic dynamical SST variability. We assess this by decomposing SST variability into dynamical and stochastic components. To compare our model results with observations, we employ empirical linear models of dynamical SST that, based on the Bjerknes feedback, use the two predictors sea surface height and zonal surface wind. We find that observed dynamical SST variance shows a pronounced seasonal cycle. It peaks during the active phase of the Atlantic Nio and is then roughly 4-7 times larger than stochastic SST variance. This indicates that the Atlantic Nio is a dynamical phenomenon that is related to the Bjerknes feedback. In the coupled model, the SST bias suppresses the summer peak in dynamical SST variance. Bias reduction, however, improves the representation of the seasonal cold tongue and enhances dynamical SST variability by supplying a background state that allows key feedbacks of the tropical ocean-atmosphere system to operate in the model. Due to the small zonal extent of the equatorial Atlantic, the observed Bjerknes feedback acts quasi-instantaneously during the dynamically active periods of boreal summer and early boreal winter. Then, all elements of the observed Bjerknes feedback operate simultaneously. The model cannot reproduce this, although it hints at a better performance when using bias reduction. |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000435522000036 |
WOS关键词 | EASTERN EQUATORIAL ATLANTIC ; TROPICAL ATLANTIC ; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY ; CLIMATE MODEL ; NINO MODE ; PACIFIC ; ANOMALIES ; SECTOR ; BIASES ; CMIP5 |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/35278 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.GEOMAR Helmholtz Ctr Ocean Res Kiel, Kiel, Germany; 2.Univ Kiel, Fac Math & Nat Sci, Kiel, Germany; 3.Univ Colorado, Cooperate Inst Res Environm Sci, Boulder, CO 80309 USA; 4.NOAA, Earth Syst Res Lab, Boulder, CO USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Dippe, Tina,Greatbatch, Richard J.,Ding, Hui. On the relationship between Atlantic Nio variability and ocean dynamics[J]. CLIMATE DYNAMICS,2018,51:597-612. |
APA | Dippe, Tina,Greatbatch, Richard J.,&Ding, Hui.(2018).On the relationship between Atlantic Nio variability and ocean dynamics.CLIMATE DYNAMICS,51,597-612. |
MLA | Dippe, Tina,et al."On the relationship between Atlantic Nio variability and ocean dynamics".CLIMATE DYNAMICS 51(2018):597-612. |
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