DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060551
论文题名: Extreme swings of the South Pacific Convergence Zone and the different types of El Niño events
作者: Borlace S. ; Santoso A. ; Cai W. ; Collins M.
刊名: Geophysical Research Letters
ISSN: 0094-9975
EISSN: 1944-9706
出版年: 2014
卷: 41, 期: 13 起始页码: 4695
结束页码: 4703
语种: 英语
英文关键词: El Niño
; extreme events
; South Pacific Convergence Zone
; tropical rainfall variability
Scopus关键词: Carbon dioxide
; Greenhouses
; Convective zone
; Eastern pacific
; Extreme events
; Greenhouse warming
; Sea Surface Temperature gradients
; South pacific convergence zones
; Spatial patterns
; Tropical rainfall
; Salinity measurement
英文摘要: There have been three extreme equatorward swings of the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) during the satellite era. These zonal SPCZ (zSPCZ) events coincided with an El Niño of different magnitude and spatial pattern, in which strong anomalous warming reduced the off-equatorial-to-equatorial meridional sea surface temperature (SST) gradient near the dateline, enabling convection to shift equatorward. It is not known, given the short observational record, how and whether different types of El Niño are associated with zSPCZ events. Using perturbed physics ensembles experiments in which SST biases are reduced, we find that zSPCZ events are concurrent with notable eastern Pacific (EP) warming. Central Pacific warming alone is rarely able to produce a swing, even as the climate warms under a CO2 increase scenario. Only El Niño events with strong EP warming can shift the convective zone. Such co-occurring events are found to increase in frequency under greenhouse warming. Key Points Extreme swings of the SPCZ occur with El Niño eastern Pacific warming Extreme El Niño is not required to induce an extreme swing of the SPCZ Extreme swings occur more often with EP-type El Niño under greenhouse warming ©2014. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84903871830&doi=10.1002%2f2014GL060551&partnerID=40&md5=bd39e8fc43c7a712682a8df0168dd451
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资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/7239
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作者单位: ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW, Australia
Recommended Citation:
Borlace S.,Santoso A.,Cai W.,et al. Extreme swings of the South Pacific Convergence Zone and the different types of El Niño events[J]. Geophysical Research Letters,2014-01-01,41(13).