期刊
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
卷 26, 期 23, 页码 9545-9562出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00344.1
关键词
ENSO; Climate variability; El Nino; La Nina; Tropical variability
资金
- U.S. Agency for International Development
El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events are accompanied by an anomalous zonal sea surface temperature (SST) gradient over the west Pacific Ocean, defined here as the west Pacific SST gradient (WPG). The WPG is defined as the standardized difference between area-averaged SST over the central Pacific Ocean (Nino-4 region) and west Pacific Ocean (0 degrees-10 degrees N, 130 degrees-150 degrees E). While the direction of the WPG follows ENSO cycles, the magnitude of the gradient varies considerably between individual El Nino and La Nina events. In this study, El Nino and La Nina events are grouped according to the magnitude of the WPG, and tropical SST, circulations, and precipitation are examined for the period 1948-2011. Until the 1980s the WPG showed little trend as the west and central Pacific warmed at similar rates; however, the west Pacific has recently warmed faster than the central Pacific, which has resulted in an increased WPG during La Nina events.The temporal evolution and distribution of tropical Pacific SST as well as the near-surface tropical Pacific zonal wind, divergence, and vertical velocity are considerably different during ENSO events partitioned according to the strength of the WPG. Modifications to the tropical circulation, resulting in changes to Indo- west Pacific precipitation, are linked to strong and consistent circulation and precipitation modifications throughout the Northern Hemisphere during winter.
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