Processes in the Pacific La Niña onset triggered by the Atlantic Niño

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Irene Polo, Marta Martin-Rey, Belen Rodriguez-Fonseca, Fred Kucharski, Carlos Mechoso]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Climate Dynamics, 44/1-2(2015-01-01), 115-131
Format:
Artikel (online)
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245 0 0 |a Processes in the Pacific La Niña onset triggered by the Atlantic Niño  |h [Elektronische Daten]  |c [Irene Polo, Marta Martin-Rey, Belen Rodriguez-Fonseca, Fred Kucharski, Carlos Mechoso] 
520 3 |a Previous observational and model studies have shown that a warm (cold) event in the equatorial Atlantic during the boreal summer are related to the development of a Pacific La Niña (El Niño) event, that is fully developed in the following winter. Although the connection takes place via atmospheric bridge, the processes at work have not been clarified for such a remote and lagged relationship. The present paper uses a partially coupled atmosphere-ocean model to infer a mechanism by which a Pacific El Niño event can be developed. In this way, enhanced equatorial convection in the equatorial Atlantic during a warm event results in enhanced subsidence and surface wind divergence over the equatorial Pacific around the dateline. This wind anomaly contributes to pile up water in the western equatorial Pacific, triggering a perturbation in the depth of the oceanic thermocline, which propagates eastward as an equatorial Kelvin wave from autumn to winter. The thermocline shallowing as the wave propagates allows for cooling of the oceanic mixed layer through anomalous temperature advection by anomalous zonal currents and by mean vertical entrainment velocity. Zonal advective and thermocline feedbacks reinforce the surface winds anomalies over the central eastern equatorial Pacific setting up the conditions for the development of a cold event in this ocean. The sequence during an Atlantic cold event is similar with the appropriate change in signs. These findings are relevant to ENSO predictability at seasonal timescales. 
540 |a Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 
690 7 |a El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Atlantic Niño  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Kelvin wave  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Walker circulation  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Polo  |D Irene  |u NCAS-Climate, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, P.O. Box 243, RG6 6BB, Reading, UK  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Martin-Rey  |D Marta  |u Meteorology and Geophysics Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Plaza de las Ciencias, 28040, Madrid, Spain  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Rodriguez-Fonseca  |D Belen  |u Meteorology and Geophysics Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Plaza de las Ciencias, 28040, Madrid, Spain  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Kucharski  |D Fred  |u The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, P.O. Box 586, 34100, Trieste, Italy  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Mechoso  |D Carlos  |u Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 7127 Math Sciences Building 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA  |4 aut 
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950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Martin-Rey  |D Marta  |u Meteorology and Geophysics Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Plaza de las Ciencias, 28040, Madrid, Spain  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Rodriguez-Fonseca  |D Belen  |u Meteorology and Geophysics Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Plaza de las Ciencias, 28040, Madrid, Spain  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Kucharski  |D Fred  |u The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, P.O. Box 586, 34100, Trieste, Italy  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Mechoso  |D Carlos  |u Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 7127 Math Sciences Building 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA  |4 aut 
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