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JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
卷 23, 期 21, 页码 5629-5643出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3292.1
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- Office of Science (BER), U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-04ER63862, DE-FG02-07ER64469]
- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
- NASA [NNX07AG53G]
- NOAA [NA17RJ1230, GC01-229]
- NSF [ATM0226141, ATM0424799]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences [1034798] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
A simple model of ENSO is developed to examine the effects of the seasonally varying background state of the equatorial Pacific on the seasonal synchronization of ENSO event peaks. The model is based on the stochastically forced recharge oscillator, extended to include periodic variations of the two main model parameters, which represent ENSO's growth rate and angular frequency. Idealized experiments show that the seasonal cycle of the growth rate parameter sets the seasonal cycle of ENSO variance; the inclusion of the time dependence of the angular frequency parameter has a negligible effect. Event peaks occur toward the end of the season with the most unstable growth rate. Realistic values of the parameters are estimated from a linearized upper-ocean heat budget with output from a high-resolution general circulation model hindcast. Analysis of the hindcast output suggests that the damping by the mean flow field dominates the seasonal cycle of ENSO's growth rate and, thereby, seasonal ENSO variance. The combination of advective, Ekman pumping, and thermocline feedbacks plays a secondary role and acts to enhance the seasonal cycle of the ENSO growth
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