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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 39, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050232
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- MoES, Govt. of India
- NASA
- Divecha Center for Climate Change, IISc, Bangalore
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The tropical pacific experienced a hitherto-unseen anomalous basinwide warming from May 2009 through April 2010 with the maximum warming to the east of the dateline, but for a weak anomalous cooling west of 140 degrees E after early boreal fall. Our observed analysis and model experiments isolate the potential teleconnections from TP during the summer of 2009. Further, we show through an empirical orthogonal function analysis of the tropical Pacific SSTA that the anomalous conditions in TP during this period could have manifested as a canonical El Nino, but for a slowly intensifying background west-east gradient. This zonal SST gradient is subject to an increasing trend associated with global warming. A possible implication is that any further increase in global warming may result in more basinwide warm events in place of canonical El Ninos, along with the occurrence of more intense La Ni as and El Nino Modokis. Citation: Ashok, K., T. P. Sabin, P. Swapna, and R. G. Murtugudde (2012), Is a global warming signature emerging in the tropical Pacific?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L02701, doi:10.1029/2011GL050232.
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