期刊
CLIMATE DYNAMICS
卷 54, 期 1-2, 页码 885-899出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-019-05034-2
关键词
WWBs; Parameterization; ENSO; Asymmetry; Diversity
资金
- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFA0604202]
- Scientific Research Fund of the Second Institute of Oceanography, MNR [JB1801]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41690120, 41690124, 41806038, 41621064]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2017M620233]
Numerous works have indicated that westerly wind bursts (WWBs) have a significant contribution to the development of El Nino events. However, the simulation of WWBs commonly suffers from large biases in the current generation of coupled general circulation models (CGCMs), limiting our ability to predict El Nino events. In this study, we introduce a WWBs parameterization scheme into the global coupled Community Earth System Model (CESM) to improve the representation of WWBs and to study the impacts of WWBs on El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) characteristics. It is found that CESM with the WWBs parameterization scheme can generate more realistic characteristics of WWBs, in particular their location and seasonal variation of occurrence. With the parameterized WWBs, the skewness of the Nino 3 index is increased, in better agreement with observation. Eastern Pacific El Nino and central Pacific El Nino events could be successfully reproduced in the model run with WWBs parameterization. Further diagnoses show that the enhanced horizontal advection in the central Pacific and vertical advection in the eastern Pacific, both of which are triggered by WWBs, are crucial factors responsible for the improvements in ENSO simulation. Clearly, WWBs have important effects on ENSO asymmetry and ENSO diversity.
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