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On the recent Atlantic Niño influence on Pacific ENSO events

On the recent Atlantic Niño influence on Pacific ENSO events . Belén Rodríguez de Fonseca. GCL2006:04471. Irene Polo Javier García-Serrano Teresa Losada Elsa Mohino Roberto Mechoso Fred Kucharski. Several presentations of these days have shown:

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On the recent Atlantic Niño influence on Pacific ENSO events

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  1. On the recent Atlantic Niño influence on Pacific ENSO events Belén Rodríguez de Fonseca GCL2006:04471 Irene Polo Javier García-Serrano Teresa Losada Elsa Mohino Roberto Mechoso Fred Kucharski

  2. Several presentations of these days have shown: -Changes in the ocean (Canary upwelling..Vigo) from the 70’s -Changes in the precipitation from the 70’s (Cantabria, UCM…) So… What has happened from the 70’s?Have the teleconnections changed? We will try to address this in this talk

  3. Atlantic and Pacific host their own El Niño events: Pacific Niño (Philander, 1990): peaking in boreal winter Reynolds SST anomaly MJJA Atlantic Niño (Merle, 1980; Zebiak, 1993): peaking in boreal spring-summer

  4. Do Pacific and Atlantic Niños correlate to each other? Links between those events have been sought with modest success (Enfield & Mayer,1997; Latif & Grötzner, 2000; Wang,2001,2005,2006; Chang, 2006…) pointing to a Pacific lead by about six months …the Nino3 does not contemporaneously correlate with the Atl3 (r~0.04)… …. “The Atlantic Niño is mostly independent of the Pacific ENSO variability; it has a shorter characteristic time scale and is not to be confused with the tropical Atlantic response to the Pacific ENSO” …. Both the tropical Pacific and Atlantic host an equatorial mode of interannual variability called the Pacific El Niño and the Atlantic Niño, respectively. Although the Pacific El Niño does not correlate with the Atlantic Niño, anomalous warming or cooling of the two equatorial oceans can form an inter-Pacific-Atlantic sea surface temperature (SST) gradient variability that induces surface zonal wind anomalies over equatorial South America and over some regions of both ocean basins …. “ The Pacific El Niño can affect the Tropical North Atlantic through the Walker and Hadley circulations, favoring the TNA warming in the subsequent spring of the Pacific El Niño year”

  5. Climate shift -Change in the Pacific SSTs (Miller et al 1994) - Change in the Indian Monsoon ENSO relationship and Atlantic influence of the Indian Monsoon (Kucharski et al,2007,2008) -Change in the backgroud state of El Niño( Fedorov and Philander, 2000) -Widening of the tropical belt (Seidel et al., 2008) -Change in the Sahelian-ENSO relationship (Janicot et al., 1996) etc…. - Statistical Atlantic-Pacific connection ???

  6. AMMA-Project: Period of Study 1979-2002 Summer West African rainfall and Tropical Atlantic SST variability scf=31% ruv=0.45 JJAS prp Statistically significant regression maps of precipitation, SST, from the EMCA (summer pt, SST evolution) Polo I., B. Rodríguez-Fonseca, T. Losada, J. García-Serrano, Journal of Climate, 2008

  7. AMMA-Project • Simultaneously the Equatorial Mode appears associated with anomalies of different sign over the equatorial Pacific. As the Atlantic Niño damps, Pacific La Niña develops. Lead-lag correlation Niño3-index and Equatorial Mode-index Niño3 leading Niño3 lagging Statistically significant regression global SST maps onto Atlantic Niño-index (lag0=JJAS) Polo I., B. Rodríguez-Fonseca, T. Losada, J. García-Serrano, Journal of Climate, 2008 García-Serrano, J.;T. Losada,B. Rodríguez-Fonseca, I. Polo, J., Journal of Climate, 2008

  8. This statistical relationship has been suggested in several recent papers Jury et al., 2002: “upper zonal winds in the central Atlantic lead the Niño-3 SST index, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s” Melice and Servain, 2003: Tropical South Atlantic leads the SOI by 4 months after 1984. Keenslyde and Latif, 2007 In early decades essentially no relationship appears to exist. In the last three decades, Atlantic SSTAs precede anomalies in the Pacific by 6 months

  9. Observed Relationship between Atl3-Niño 3 ATL3 (Zebiak,1993) 0.2 0.6 1954-1984 1969-1999

  10. Correlation maps between ATL3 jjas and lagged SSTs 1948-1978

  11. Correlation maps between ATL3 jjas and lagged SSTs 1979-1998

  12. Lag -1 200 hPa Velocity potential SST, precipitation surface divergence, surface winds 200 hPa stream function Regression maps of the Atlantic WAM-SST exp. Coeff. index onto the anomalous SST, precipitation,200 hPa velocity potential, surface divergence, surface winds, 200 hPa stream function

  13. Lag 0 200 hPa Velocity potential SST, precipitation surface divergence, surface winds 200 hPa stream function

  14. Lag +1 200 hPa Velocity potential SST, precipitation surface divergence, surface winds 200 hPa stream function

  15. Lag +2 200 hPa Velocity potential SST, precipitation surface divergence, surface winds 200 hPa stream function

  16. Lag +3 200 hPa Velocity potential SST, precipitation surface divergence, surface winds 200 hPa stream function

  17. Lag +4 200 hPa Velocity potential SST, precipitation surface divergence, surface winds 200 hPa stream function

  18. Thermocline depth

  19. Hypothesis: During recent Atlantic Niños, SST anomalies in the eastern equatorial Atlantic are superimposed on a basic state that has been warming up. The increased deep-convection associated with the thermal forcing impacts the Walker circulation, whereby in the central Pacific surface divergence is enhanced, SST decreases, and the thermocline becomes steeper The hypothesis is tested using a coupled model

  20. Sensitivity Experiments Ocean model coupled to the AGCM Prescribed observed 1950-98 SSTs The atmospheric model: ICTP AGCM19,20, version 40 . Ocean model: extended 1.5 layer reduced-gravity model Experiment: The ocean model is coupled to the ICTP AGCM in the tropical Indo-Pacific region (between 30ºS and 30ºN), outside which the latter uses climatological SSTs, from the Atlantic sector, where observed, monthly varying SSTs are used. This ocean model has been used extensively in the study of the Pacific El Niño (Chang,1994).

  21. Simulated relationship between Atl3 and Niño 3

  22. Correlation maps between ATL3 jjas and lagged SSTs Simulations 1949-1978

  23. Correlation maps between ATL3 jjas and lagged SSTs Simulations 1979-2001

  24. Conclusions -The observations show how, from the last three decades, Atlantic Niños (or Atlantic Equatorial mode events) tend to lead Pacific Niñas . -From these decades, there has been a change in the basic state with respect to early ones. -In this way, for this time period, during Atlantic Niño events, and from the early spring, the development of the Equatorial Mode goes together with an enhancement in the ascending branch of the Walker circulation over the equatorial Atlantic and, subsequent displacement of anomalous convection towards the Amazon basin. -This anomalous convection induces anomalous surface divergence over the eastern equatorial Pacific, thus enhancing a Bjerknes feedback mechanism and favouring La Niña development. -Coupled AGCM experiments with prescribed SSTs over the Atlantic reproduce this change and the associated mechanism.

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