Impacts of South China Sea throughflow on the mean state and El Niño/Southern Oscillation as revealed by a coupled GCM

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Tomoki Tozuka, Tangdong Qu, Toshio Yamagata]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Journal of Oceanography, 71/1(2015-02-01), 105-114
Format:
Artikel (online)
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245 0 0 |a Impacts of South China Sea throughflow on the mean state and El Niño/Southern Oscillation as revealed by a coupled GCM  |h [Elektronische Daten]  |c [Tomoki Tozuka, Tangdong Qu, Toshio Yamagata] 
520 3 |a The South China Sea (SCS) throughflow (SCSTF) enters the SCS from the Luzon Strait and exits it through the straits to the south. Using a coupled general circulation model (CGCM), this study reveals impacts of the SCSTF on the mean state and El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO). It is found that the model's sea surface temperature becomes cooler in the eastern and far western equatorial Pacific and south of Japan, but significantly warmer in the SCS, when the SCSTF is blocked. The warming in the SCS is likely a result of accumulated surface heat flux which otherwise would be transported out of the SCS by the SCSTF. Furthermore, the dominant period of ENSO is 4years when the SCSTF is allowed, but it becomes 5years when the SCSTF is blocked. This is because the meridional extent of zonal wind anomalies becomes broader and the Walker Circulation in the Indian Ocean becomes stronger in the no-SCSTF case. On the other hand, changes in the zonal location of zonal wind anomalies, the phase speed of baroclinic Kelvin waves, the occurrence of westerly wind bursts, and strength of atmospheric feedbacks do not contribute to the difference between the two experiments even though they are known to influence the ENSO period. The climatic importance of the SCSTF has been so far overlooked because of its small volume transport compared with other major currents in the global ocean, but the present work shows for the first time its possible impacts on ENSO. 
540 |a The Oceanographic Society of Japan and Springer Japan, 2014 
690 7 |a South China Sea  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a ENSO  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Coupled general circulation model  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Walker circulation  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a South China Sea throughflow  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Indonesian throughflow  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Tozuka  |D Tomoki  |u Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, 113-0033, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Qu  |D Tangdong  |u International Pacific Research Center, SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1680 East-West Road, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Yamagata  |D Toshio  |u Application Laboratory, JAMSTEC, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa-Ku, 236-0001, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan  |4 aut 
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