Extratropical subduction and decadal modulation of El Niño

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 743-746

  Weaver, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); WIND;

EL NINO PHENOMENON; EXTRATROPICAL SUBDUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; SUBDUCTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0033559833     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900102     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Alexander, M. A. and C. Deser, A mechanism for the recurrence of wintertime midlatitude SST anomalies, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 25, 122-137, 1995.
2. Battisti, D. S. and A. C. Hirst, Interannual variability in a tropical atmosphere-ocean model: Influence of the basic state, ocean geometry and nonlinearity, J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 1687-1712, 1989.
3. Cane, M. A. and S. E. Zebiak, A theory or El Niño and the Southern Oscillation, Science, 228, 1084-1087, 1985.
4. da Silva, A. M, C. C. Young, and S. Levitus. Atlas of Marine Data 1994. Vol. 3: Anomalies of Heat and Momentum Fluxes. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 8, US Dept. Comm., Washington, DC, 99 pp, 1994.
5. Deser, C. and M. L. Blackmon, On the relationship between tropical and North Pacific sea surface temperature variations, J. Clim., 8, 1677-1680, 1995.
6. Deser, C., M. A. Alexander, and M.S. Timlin, Upper-ocean thermal variations in the North Pacific during 1970-1991, J. Clim., 9, 1840-1855, 1996.
7. Fanning, A. F. and A. J. Weaver, An atmospheric energy-moisture balance model: climatology, interpentadal climate change, and coupling to an ocean general circulation model. J. Geophys. Res., 101, 15111-15128, 1996.
8. Gent, P. R. and J. McWilliams, Isopycnal mixing in ocean circulation models, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 20, 150-155, 1990
9. Gu, D. and G. H. Philander, Internal climate fluctuations that depend on exchanges between the tropics and extratropics, Science, 275, 805-807, 1997.
10. Harper, S. Thermocline ventilation and pathways of tropical-subtropical water mass exchange. Tellus, submitted, 1998.
11. Inui, T. A Numerical Investigation of Effects of Westerlies Variability on the Circulation of Subducted Water. PhD thesis, Hokkaido University, 152 pp 1996.
12. Latif, M. and T. P. Barnett, Causes of decadal climate variability over the North Pacific and North America, Science, 266, 634-637, 1994.
13. Nakamura, H., G. Lin, and T. Yamagata, Decadal climate variability in the North Pacific during the recent decades, Bull. Am. Meteor. Soc., 78, 2215-2225, 1997.
14. Pacanowski, R. C., Mom2 user's guide and reference manual. GFDL Ocean Group Tech. Rep. 3, GFDL/NOAA, Princeton, NJ, 232 pp, 1995.
15. Schopf, P. S. and M. J. Suarez, Vacillations in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model, J. Atmos. Sci., 45, 549-566, 1988.
16. Trenberth, K. E., Recent observed interdecadal climate changes in the northern hemisphere. Bull. Am. Meteor. Soc., 71, 988-993, 1990.
17. Trenberth, K. E. and J. W. Hurrell, Decadal atmosphere-ocean variations in the Pacific, Clim. Dyn., 9, 303-319, 1994.
18. Wiebe, E. C. and A. J. Weaver, On the sensitivity of global warming experiments to the parameterisation of sub-grid scale ocean mixing, Clim. Dyn., in press, 1999.