Linking emergence of the central Pacific El Niño to the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 651-662

  Yu, Jin Yi ^a   Kao, Pei Ken ^a,b   Paek, Houk ^a   Hsu, Huang Hsiung ^c   Hung, Chih Wen ^d   Lu, Mong Ming ^e   An, Soon Il ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU   (Taiwan)

^f Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; EASTERN PACIFIC; EXTRATROPICAL; EXTRATROPICAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OCEAN ATMOSPHERE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

TROPICS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO; NUMERICAL MODEL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

EID: 84921632735     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00347.1     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Alexander, M., and Coauthors, 2006: Extratropical atmosphere-ocean variability in CCSM3. J. Climate, 19, 2496-2525, doi:10.1175/JCLI3743.1.
2. Alexander, M., D. J. Vimont, P. Chang, and J. D. Scott, 2010: The impact of extratropical atmospheric variability on ENSO: Testing the seasonal footprinting mechanism using coupled model experiments. J. Climate, 23, 2885-2901, doi:10.1175/2010JCLI3205.1.
3. Anderson, B. T., 2003: Tropical Pacific sea-surface temperatures and preceding sea level pressure anomalies in the subtropical North Pacific. J. Geophys. Res., 108, 4732, doi:10.1029/2003JD003805.
4. Ashok, K., S. Behera, A. S. Rao, H. Weng, and T. Yamagata, 2007: El Niño Modoki and its teleconnection. J. Geophys. Res., 112, C11007, doi:10.1029/2006JC003798.
5. Battisti, D. S., and A. C. Hirst, 1989: Interannual variability in the tropical atmosphere-ocean model: Influence of the basic state, ocean geometry and nonlinearity. J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 1687-1712, doi:10.1175/1520-0469(1989)046<1687:IVIATA>2.0.CO;2.
6. Bretherton, C. S., C. Smith, and J. M. Wallace, 1992: An intercomparison of methods for finding coupled patterns in climate data. J. Climate, 5, 541-560, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(1992)005<0541:AIOMFF>2.0.CO;2.
7. Capotondi, A., and Coauthors, 2013: U.S. CLIVAR ENSO Diversity Workshop report. U.S. CLIVAR Rep. 2013-1, 23 pp.
8. Chang, P., L. Zhang, R. Saravanan, D. J. Vimont, J. C. H. Chiang, L. Ji, H. Seidel, and M. K. Tippett, 2007: Pacific meridional mode and El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L16608, doi:10.1029/2007GL030302.
9. Chiang, J. C. H., and D. J. Vimont, 2004: Analogous Pacific and Atlantic meridional modes of tropical atmosphere-ocean variability. J. Climate, 17, 4143-4158, doi:10.1175/JCLI4953.1.
10. Collins, W. D., and Coauthors, 2006: The formulation and atmospheric simulation of the Community Atmosphere Model version 3(CAM3). J. Climate, 19, 2144-2161, doi:10.1175/JCLI3760.1.
11. Compo, G. P., and P. D. Sardeshmukh, 2010: Removing ENSOrelated variations from the climate record. J. Climate, 23, 1957-1978, doi:10.1175/2009JCLI2735.1.
12. Compo, G. P., and Coauthors, 2011: The Twentieth Century Reanalysis project. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 137, 1-28, doi:10.1002/qj.776.
13. Czaja, A., P. van der Vaart, and J. Marshall, 2002: A diagnostic study of the role of remote forcing in tropicalAtlantic variability. J. Climate, 15, 3280-3290, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<3280:ADSOTR>2.0.CO;2.
14. Ebita, A., and Coauthors, 2011: The Japanese 55-year Reanalysis "JRA-55": An interim report. SOLA, 7, 149-152, doi:10.2151/sola.2011-038.
15. Enfield, D. B., A. M. Mestas-Nuñez, and P. J. Trimble, 2001: The Atlantic multidecadal oscillation and its relation to rainfall and river flows in the continental US. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2077-2080, doi:10.1029/2000GL012745.
16. Gates, W. L., and Coauthors, 1999: An overview of the results of the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP I). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 80, 29-55, doi:10.1175/1520-0477(1999)080<0029:AOOTRO>2.0.CO;2.
17. Jin, F.-F., 1997: An equatorial recharge paradigm for ENSO. Part I:Conceptual model. J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 811-829, doi:10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<0811:AEORPF>2.0.CO;2.
18. Kalnay, E., and Coauthors, 1996: The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 437-471, doi:10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<0437:TNYRP>2.0.CO;2.
19. Kao, H.-Y., and J.-Y. Yu, 2009: Contrasting eastern Pacific and central Pacific types of ENSO. J. Climate, 22, 615-632, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2309.1.
20. Kerr, R. A., 2000: A North Atlantic climate pacemaker for the centuries. Science, 288, 1984-1986, doi:10.1126/science.288.5473.1984.
21. Kim, S. T., J.-Y. Yu, A. Kumar, and H. Wang, 2012: Examination of the two types of ENSO in the NCEP CFS model and its extratropical associations. Mon. Wea. Rev., 140, 1908-1923, doi:10.1175/MWR-D-11-00300.1.
22. Kug, J.-S., F.-F. Jin, and S.-I. An, 2009: Two types of El Niño events: Cold tongue El Niño and warm pool El Niño. J. Climate, 22, 1499-1515, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2624.1.
23. Larkin, N. K., and D. E. Harrison, 2005: On the definition of El Niño and associated seasonal average U.S. weather anomalies. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L13705, doi:10.1029/2005GL022738.
24. Lee, T., and M. J. McPhaden, 2010: Increasing intensity of El Niño in the central-equatorial Pacific. Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L14603, doi:10.1029/2010GL044007.
25. Lin, C.-Y., J.-Y.Yu, and H. H. Hsu, 2014:CMIP5 model simulations of the Pacific meridional mode and its connection to the two types of ENSO. Int. J. Climatol., doi:10.1002/joc.4130, in press.
26. Mantua, N. J., S. R. Hare, Y. Zhang, J. M. Wallace, and R. C. Francis, 1997: A Pacific decadal climate oscillation with impacts on salmon production. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78, 1069-1079, doi:10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<1069:APICOW>2.0.CO;2.
27. McPhaden, M. J., T. Lee, and D. McClurg, 2011: El Niño and its relationship to changing background conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L15709, doi:10.1029/2011GL048275.
28. Newman, M., S.-I. Shin, and M. A. Alexander, 2011: Natural variation in ENSO flavors. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L14705, doi:10.1029/2011GL047658.
29. Rogers, J. C., 1981: The North Pacific Oscillation. J. Climatol., 1, 39-57, doi:10.1002/joc.3370010106.
30. Schlesinger, M. E., and N. Ramankutty, 1994: An oscillation in the global climate system of period 65-70 years. Nature, 367, 723-726, doi:10.1038/367723a0.
31. Smith, T. M., R. W. Reynolds, T. C. Peterson, and J. Lawrimore, 2008: Improvements to NOAA's historical merged land-ocean surface temperature analysis (1880-2006). J. Climate, 21, 2283-2296, doi:10.1175/2007JCLI2100.1.
32. Solomon, A., and M. Newman, 2012: Reconciling disparate twentieth-century Indo-Pacific Ocean temperature trends in the instrumental record. Nat. Climate Change, 2, 691-699, doi:10.1038/nclimate1591.
33. Suarez, M. J., and P. S. Schopf, 1988: A delayed action oscillator for ENSO. J. Atmos. Sci., 45, 3283-3287, doi:10.1175/1520-0469(1988)045<3283:ADAOFE>2.0.CO;2.
34. Taylor, K. E., R. J. Stouffer, and G. A. Meehl, 2012: An overview of CMIP5 and the experiment design. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93, 485-498, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00094.1.
35. Vimont, D. J., D. S. Battisti, and A. C. Hirst, 2001: Footprinting:A seasonal connection between the tropics and midlatitudes. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 3923-3926, doi:10.1029/2001GL013435.
36. Vimont, D. J., J. M. Wallace, and D. S. Battisti, 2003: The seasonal footprinting mechanism in the Pacific: Implications for ENSO. J. Climate, 16, 2668-2675, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<2668:TSFMIT>2.0.CO;2.
37. Vimont, D. J., M. Alexander, and A. Fontaine, 2009: Midlatitude excitation of tropical variability in the Pacific: The role of thermodynamic coupling and seasonality. J. Climate, 22, 518-534, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2220.1.
38. Walker, G. T., and E. W. Bliss, 1932: World weather V. Mem. R. Meteor. Soc., 4, 53-84.
39. Xie, S.-P., 1999: A dynamic ocean-atmosphere model of the tropical Atlantic decadal variability. J. Climate, 12, 64-70, doi:10.1175/1520-0442-12.1.64.
40. Xie, S.-P., and S. G. H. Philander, 1994: A coupled ocean-atmosphere model of relevance to the ITCZ in the eastern Pacific. Tellus, 46A, 340-350, doi:10.1034/j.1600-0870.1994.t01-1-00001.x.
41. Yeh, S. W., J. S. Kug, B. Dewitte, M. H. Kwon, B. P. Kirtman, and F.-F. Jin, 2009: El Niño in a changing climate. Nature, 461, 511-514, doi:10.1038/nature08316.
42. Yu, J.-Y., and H.-Y. Kao, 2007: Decadal changes of ENSO persistence barrier in SST and ocean heat content indices: 1958-2001. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D13106, doi:10.1029/2006JD007654.
43. Yu, J.-Y., and S. T. Kim, 2011: Relationships between extratropical sea level pressure variations and the central Pacific and eastern Pacific types of ENSO. J. Climate, 24, 708-720, doi:10.1175/2010JCLI3688.1.
44. Yu, J.-Y., and B. S. Giese, 2013: ENSO diversity in observations. CLIVAR Variations, Vol. 11, No. 2, U.S. CLIVAR, Washington, DC, 1-5.
45. Yu, J.-Y., H.-Y. Kao, and T. Lee, 2010: Subtropics-related interannual sea surface temperature variability in the central equatorial Pacific. J. Climate, 23, 2869-2884, doi:10.1175/2010JCLI3171.1.
46. Yu, J.-Y., H.-Y. Kao., T. Lee, and S. T. Kim, 2011: Subsurface ocean temperature indices for central-Pacific and eastern-Pacific types of El Niño and La Niña events. Theor. Appl. Climatol., 103, 337-344, doi:10.1007/s00704-010-0307-6.
47. Yu, J.-Y., M.-M. Lu, and S. T. Kim, 2012: A change in the relationship between tropical central Pacific SST variability and the extratropical atmosphere around 1990. Environ. Res. Lett., 7, 034025, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034025.
48. Zhang, R., and T. L. Delworth, 2007: Impact of the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation on North Pacific climate variability. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L23708, doi:10.1029/2007GL031601.