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JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
卷 30, 期 4, 页码 1327-1343出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0427.1
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2014CB953904]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41575088, 41461164005]
- Foundation of CUIT [KYTZ201602]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS
El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the most important sources of climate interannual variability. A prominent characteristic of ENSO is the asymmetric, or so-called nonlinear, local rainfall response to El Nino (EN) and La Nina (LN), in which the maximum rainfall anomalies during EN are located farther east than those during LN. In this study, the changes in rainfall anomalies during EN and LN are examined based on the multimodel ensemble mean results of 32 CMIP5 models under the representative concentration pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) scenario. It is found that robust EN-LN asymmetric changes in rainfall anomalies exist. The rainfall anomalies during EN and LN both shift eastward and intensify under global warming, but the eastward shift during EN is farther east than that during LN. A simplified moisture budget decomposition method is applied to study the mechanism of the asymmetric response. The results show that the robust increase in mean-state moisture can enlarge the EN-LN asymmetry of the rainfall anomalies, and the spatial relative changes in mean-state SST with an El Nino-like pattern can shift the rainfall anomalies farther east during EN than during LN, enlarging the difference in the zonal locations of the rainfall response to EN and LN. The role of the relative changes in mean-state SST can also be interpreted as follows: the decreased zonal gradient of mean-state SST due to El Nino-like warming leads to a larger EN-LN asymmetry of rainfall anomalies under a future warming climate.
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