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JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS
Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 1901-1917Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2015MS000530
Keywords
Madden-Julian oscillation; intraseasonal variability; superparameterization; Indian Ocean dipole; tropical convection; ENSO
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) [OCI-1053575, TG-ATM120034]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF [AGS-1419518]
- DOE [DE-SC0012152, DE-SC0012548]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0012548] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1419507] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The superparameterized Community Atmosphere Model (SPCAM) is used to investigate the impact and geographic sensitivity of positive Indian Ocean Dipole (+IOD) sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) on Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) propagation. The goal is to clarify potentially appreciable +IOD effects on MJO dynamics detected in prior studies by using a global model with explicit convection representation. Prescribed climatological October SSTs and variants of the SST distribution from October 2006, a +IOD event, force the model. Modest MJO convection weakening over the Maritime Continent occurs when either climatological SSTs, or +IOD SST anomalies restricted to the Indian Ocean, are applied. However, severe MJO weakening occurs when either +IOD SST anomalies are applied globally or restricted to the equatorial Pacific. MJO disruption is associated with time-mean changes in the zonal wind profile and lower moist static energy (MSE) in subsiding air masses imported from the Subtropics by Rossby-like gyres. On intraseasonal scales, MJO disruption arises from significantly smaller MSE accumulation, weaker meridional advective moistening, and overactive submonthly eddies that mix drier subtropical air into the path of MJO convection. These results (1) demonstrate that SPCAM reproduces observed time-mean and intraseasonal changes during +IOD episodes, (2) reaffirm the role that submonthly eddies play in MJO propagation and show that such multiscale interactions are sensitive to interannual SST states, and (3) suggest that boreal fall +IOD SSTs local to the Indian Ocean have a significantly smaller impact on Maritime Continent MJO propagation compared to contemporaneous Pacific SST anomalies which, for October 2006, resemble El Nino-like conditions.
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