期刊
CLIMATE DYNAMICS
卷 45, 期 11-12, 页码 3077-3090出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2525-1
关键词
Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation; Pacific Decadal Oscillation; Pacific Decadal Variability; IPO; PDO; PDV; TPI
资金
- Australian Research Council under a Cooperative Research Network (CRN) fellowship
- Australian Research Council DECRA fellowship [DE130100668]
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science
- Australian Department of the Environment through the Australian Climate Change Science Program
- Joint UK DECC/Defra Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme [GA01101]
A new index is developed for the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation, termed the IPO Tripole Index (TPI). The IPO is associated with a distinct 'tripole' pattern of sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTA), with three large centres of action and variations on decadal timescales, evident in the second principal component (PC) of low-pass filtered global SST. The new index is based on the difference between the SSTA averaged over the central equatorial Pacific and the average of the SSTA in the Northwest and Southwest Pacific. The TPI is an easily calculated, non-PC-based index for tracking decadal SST variability associated with the IPO. The TPI time series bears a close resemblance to previously published PC-based indices and has the advantages of being simpler to compute and more consistent with indices used to track the El Nio-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), such as Nio 3.4. The TPI also provides a simple metric in physical units of A degrees C for evaluating decadal and interdecadal variability of SST fields in a straightforward manner, and can be used to evaluate the skill of dynamical decadal prediction systems. Composites of SST and mean sea level pressure anomalies reveal that the IPO has maintained a broadly stable structure across the seven most recent positive and negative epochs that occurred during 1870-2013. The TPI is shown to be a robust and stable representation of the IPO phenomenon in instrumental records, with relatively more variance in decadal than shorter timescales compared to Nio 3.4, due to the explicit inclusion of off-equatorial SST variability associated with the IPO.
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