期刊
CLIMATE DYNAMICS
卷 47, 期 7-8, 页码 2413-2424出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2971-9
关键词
El Nino; SST anomaly; Air-sea coupled thermodynamic process; Water-vapor feedback
资金
- National Key Research Program of China [2014CB953904, 2012CB956002]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41375081]
- China Special Fund for Meteorological Research in the Public Interest [GYHY201406018]
- LASW State Key Laboratory Special Fund [2013LASW-A05]
- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Climate Change
- Zhuhai Joint Innovative Center for Climate, Environment and Ecosystem
- International Program for Ph.D. Candidates of Sun Yat-sen University
- National Science Foundation of the US [AGS-1354834]
This paper examines the roles of radiative and non-radiative air-sea coupled thermodynamic processes in modifying sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies driven by (air-sea coupled) oceanic dynamic processes, focusing on their contributions to the key differences between the eastern Pacific (EP) El Nio and the central Pacific (CP) El Nio. The attribution is achieved by decomposing SST anomalies into partial temperature anomalies due to individual processes using a coupled atmosphere-surface climate feedback-response analysis method. Oceanic processes induce warming from the central to the eastern equatorial Pacific and cooling over the western basin with a maximum warming center in the central Pacific for both types of El Nio. The processes that act to oppose the oceanic process-induced SST anomalies are surface latent heat flux, sensible heat flux, cloud, and atmospheric dynamic feedbacks, referred to as negative-feedback processes. The cooling due to each of the four negative-feedback processes is the strongest in the region where the initial warming due to oceanic processes is the largest. Water-vapor feedback is the sole process that acts to enhance the initial warming induced by oceanic processes. The increase in atmospheric water vapor over the eastern Pacific is much stronger for the EP El Nio than for the CP El Nio. It is the strong water-vapor feedback over the eastern Pacific and the strong negative feedbacks over the central equatorial Pacific that help to relocate the maximum warming center from the central Pacific to the eastern basin for the EP El Nio.
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