ENSO循环机理的一些新看法与气候异常

近几年来我国学者在对ENSO循环机理方面提出了一些新看法。研究表明 ,ENSO实质上是主要由东亚季风异常引起的赤道西太平洋异常纬向风所驱动的热带太平洋次表层海温异常的年际循环。ENSO的真正源在西太平洋暖池 ,暖池正 (负 )SOTA沿赤道温跃层 (斜温层 )东传到东太平洋 ,便导致ElNi no/LaNi na的爆发 ;在暖池正 (负 )SOTA沿赤道温跃层东传的同时 ,有负 (正 )SOTA沿 10°N和 10°S纬度带向西传播 ,从而构成SOTA的循环 ;而热带太平洋SOTA循环的驱动者是赤道西太平洋的异常纬向风。ENSO事件的发生 ,往往引起全球大气环流和世界许多地区的气候异常 ,导致一些国家和地区多雨洪涝 ,另外一些国家和地区高温少雨和严重干旱。     

西太平洋暖池次表层海温异常 与ENSO循环的相互作用

利用1964～1993年的太平洋次表层海温资料,进一步分析研究了西太平洋暖池次表层海温异常与ENSO循环的关系。合成及相关分析的结果进一步表明,西太平洋暖池次表层海温的暖（冷）异常及其东传对ENSO的发生起着十分重要、且更直接的作用。然而,赤道西太平洋异常纬向风是造成次表层海温异常东传的重要原因,而纬向风的异常又是由于东亚冬季风异常活动所引起的,这间接地说明了异常东亚冬季风对西太平洋暖池次表层海温距平东传的重要作用。通过研究还发现,ENSO发生后,北半球副热带地区将有次表层暖（冷）海温距平沿着10～20oN纬带西传,这是导致西太平洋暖池次表层海温发生异常的重要原因之一。也就是说,西太平洋暖池次表层海温异常与ENSO循环之间是相互影响、相互作用的。     

关于ENSO本质的进一步研究

基于ENSO是热带太平洋海气相互作用产物的科学观点,一系列的分析研究表明:赤道太平洋次表层海温异常(SOTA)有明显的年际变化(循环),并且与ENSO发生密切相关;ENSO的真正源区在赤道西太平洋暖池,赤道西太平洋暖池正(负)SOTA沿赤道温跃层东传到东太平洋,导致El Nino(La Nina)的爆发;在暖池正(负)SOTA沿赤道温跃层东传的同时,将有负(正)SOTA沿10°N和10°S两个纬度带向西传播,从而构成SOTA的循环;热带太平洋SOTA年际循环的驱动者主要是由异常东亚季风所引起的赤道西太平洋纬向风的异常.进而,可以提出关于ENSO本质的一种新理论,即ENSO实质上主要是由异常东亚季风引起的赤道西太平洋异常纬向风所驱动的热带太平洋次表层海温距平的年际循环.       

MJO持续异常对ENSO的影响

MJO在夏季会出现在太平洋持续异常活跃和在印度洋持续异常活跃两种形式,用指数定义了这种异常的强度,并发现这种异常表现与秋冬季节ENSO的出现之间有很高的相关性。当夏季MJO在太平洋持续异常活跃时,经常激发当年秋冬季节发生El Nino事件;当夏季MJO在印度洋持续异常活跃时,经常激发当年秋冬季节发生La Nina事件。对大气环流的分析表明,MJO的持续异常活跃会对整个赤道太平洋上空的环流造成影响,引起风应力的异常。异常风应力激发次表层冷/暖海水向东输送。冬季冷/暖海水在东太平洋次表层堆积,最终导致ENSO的形成。     

赤道太平洋次表层海温模态在ENSO循环中的作用

利用美国马里兰大学海洋同化月平均再分析资料(SODA),分离出赤道太平洋次表层海温异常(SOTA)的年际变率和年代际变率,利用经验正交分解(EOF)方法分别得到SOTA年际变率和年代际变率的第一模态和第二模态,重点分析了第二模态在ENSO循环中的作用。结果表明,赤道太平洋年际变率和年代际变率的第一模态为偶极子分布,此分布型是ENSO循环冷暖位相在次表层的同时表现。第二模态以次表层范围较广的海温异常趋势一致分布为显著特征,该模态是ENSO循环演变过程的重要环节。第二模态时间系数与Ni?o-3.4指数具有较好的超前相关性,可作为ENSO事件的预测前兆信号,合成和个例分析验证了这一次表层信号的预测指示作用。      

中国气候异常变化与ENSO准四年循环的联系分析

从月资料分析入手，分析了中国大陆地区的降水和气温异常与ENSO的联系。首先用REOF方法对降水和气温的变化进行分区分析，并讨论其年际变化特点。然后对降水和海温场、气温和海温场分别进行CSVD分析，讨论了在ENSO准四年循环的不同位相上，气温和降水的异常变化情况。结果表明：（1)在ElNino期间，我国东部地区，尤其是东北、长江中下游的江南地区降水偏多，容易发生洪涝，华北地区、黄河流域尤其是中部降水偏少，可能发生干旱。其中长江中下游的南部降水与赤道中东太平洋海温在准四年变化上关系密切，当中东太平洋海温达到最高值后约3个月，长江中下游的南部降水出现最大正距平。(2)在ElNino期间，东北容易出现低温天气，而其它地区尤其是河套地区及西南南部易出现高温天气。其中东北地区气温变化与赤道中东太平洋海温在准四年变化上关系密切，当中东太平洋海温达到最高值后约2个月，东北气温的负距平出现最低。LaNina阶段，情况与前述相反。     

西太平洋暖池次表层海温一场与ENSO关系的CGCM模拟结果

全球大气与热带太平洋相耦合的数值模式（ＣＧＣＭ） 很好地模拟了ＥＮＳＯ （ 厄尔尼诺和拉尼娜） 型海表水温（ＳＳＴ） 异常, 进一步分析多年的模式积分结果, 清楚地表明赤道中东太平洋ＳＳＴ 异常与西太平洋暖池次表层（ 深１００ ～２００ ｍ） 的海温异常有密切的关系。在Ｅｌ Ｎｉｎｏ 事件发生之前的半年到一年左右, 西太平洋暖池次表层海温有明显正异常,并向东传播; 而在Ｌａ Ｎｉｎａ 发生之前的半年到一年左右, 暖池次表层海温有明显负异常, 并向东传播。因此, 西太平洋暖池次表层海温异常及其东传对Ｅｌ Ｎｉｎｏ （Ｌａ Ｎｉｎａ） 的发生有极重要作用。     

对ENSO循环机理的一些新认识

近几年国内学者通过资料诊断、理论分析和数值试验,对ENSO循环的机理提出了一些新的看法,其中包括El Nino和La Nina的起源,与ENSO循环相联系的暖、冷水的传播过程,热带西太平洋纬向风应力异常,以及热带东太平洋经向风应力异常在ENSO循环中的动力作用等.作者介绍了我国在这些方面的一些研究成果.     

ENSO 循环过程中逐月海温异常的合成分析

文章基于UK和MIT 1990年整编的12年（1968～1977年和1982～1983年）逐月5°×5°经纬网格点的海温（SST）距平资料,对其间发生的4次El Nino事件和3次La Nina事件作了逐月全球SST异常分布的合成分析。合成结果表明：在El Nino事件的形成阶段,赤道中太平洋存在明显的东传暖性低频扰动;而在La Nina事件的形成阶段,南北美沿岸有稳定增强的冷中心向西发展。     

西太平洋暖池热含量年际变化及其对东亚气候异常的影响

利用1980—2010年共31个冬季的GODAS海洋同化资料,以5～366 m次表层海温构造西太平洋暖池区域的热含量,分析了冬季西太平洋暖池次表层热含量的时空特征、持续性以及对其邻近区域的气候异常影响,结果表明:(1) 整体一致性分布是冬季西太暖池区次表层热含量年际变化的主导模态,其时间系数的年际振荡较好地代表了暖池区次表层热状况的年际异常。暖池区热含量的变化与ENSO事件联系密切,它能保持超前两季以上的显著自相关,持续性较赤道中东太平洋海温异常更为稳定。(2) 冬季暖池区热含量异常对后期春、夏季暖池热状况产生持续影响,相应的暖水体积变化导致暖水的经向输送及垂直交换,对后期春夏两季暖池及邻近区域尤其是菲律宾海的表层海温、海表热通量变化有较大影响。(3) 冬季暖池区热含量上升对应春季菲律宾海以东洋面OLR数值下降以及降水偏多,所引起的对流活动加热异常导致热带及副热带西北太平洋位势等压面抬升,进而对西太副高产生影响。之后,此区域相应的海表热通量交换加强,对流层低层形成强大的异常气旋,海气相互作用加强,加上对流加热异常,使得冬季暖池热含量异常与夏季副热带高压变化联系更加紧密。因此冬季暖池区热含量可作为春、夏季西太副高变化和西北太平洋夏季风强度的有效预测因子。      

The influence of climate regime shift on ENSO

Observations indicated that for the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) there have been eastward displacements of the zonal wind stress (WS) anomalies and surface heat flux (short wave heat flux and latent heat flux) anomalies during El Niño episodes in the 1981–1995 regime relative to the earlier regime of 1961–1975 (without corresponding displacements during La Niña episodes). Our numerical experiments with the Zebiak–Cane coupled model generally reproduced such displacements when the model climatological fields were replaced by the observed climatologies [of sea surface temperature (SST), surface WS and surface wind atmospheric divergence] and simulated climatologies (of oceanic surface layer currents and associated upwelling) for the 1981–1995 regime. Sensitivity tests indicated that the background atmospheric state played a much more important role than the background ocean state in producing the displacements, which enhanced the asymmetry between El Niño and La Niña in the later regime. The later regime climatology state resulted in the eastward shifts in the ENSO system (WS and SST) only during El Niño, through the eastward shift of the atmosphere convergence heating rate in the coupled model. The ENSO period and ENSO predictability were also enhanced in the coupled model under the later regime climatology. That the change in the mean state of the tropical Pacific atmosphere and ocean after the mid 1970s could have produced the observed changes in ENSO properties is consistent with our findings.     

ENSO nonlinearity in a warming climate

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is known as the strongest natural inter-annual climate signal, having widespread consequences on the global weather, climate, ecology and even on societies. Understanding ENSO variations in a changing climate is therefore of primordial interest to both the climate community and policy makers. In this study, we focus on the change in ENSO nonlinearity due to climate change. We first analysed high statistical moments of observed Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) timeseries of the tropical Pacific based on the measurement of the tails of their Probability Density Function (PDF). This allows defining relevant metrics for the change in nonlinearity observed over the last century. Based on these metrics, a zonal “see-saw” (oscillation) in nonlinearity patterns is highlighted that is associated with the change in El Niño characteristics observed in recent years. Taking advantage of the IPCC database and the different projection scenarios, it is showed that changes in El Niño statistics (or “flavour”) from a present-day climate to a warmer climate are associated with a significant change in nonlinearity patterns. In particular, in the twentieth century climate, the “conventional” eastern Pacific El Niño relates more to changes in nonlinearity than to changes in mean state whereas the central Pacific El Niño (or Modoki El Niño) is more sensitive to changes in mean state than to changes in nonlinearity. An opposite behaviour is found in a warmer climate, namely the decreasing nonlinearity in the eastern Pacific tends to make El Niño less frequent but more sensitive to mean state, whereas the increasing nonlinearity in the west tends to trigger Central Pacific El Niño more frequently. This suggests that the change in ENSO statistics due to climate change might result from changes in the zonal contrast of nonlinearity characteristics across the tropical Pacific.     

On the relation between ENSO and global climate change

Summary Two lines of research into climate change and El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) converge on the conclusion that changes in ENSO statistics occur as a response to global climate (temperature) fluctuations. One approach focuses on the statistics of temperature fluctuations interpreted within the framework of random walks. The second is based on the discovery of correlation between the recurrence frequency of El Niño and temperature change, while developing physical arguments to explain several phenomena associated with changes in El Niño frequency. Consideration of both perspectives leads to greater confidence in, and guidance for, the physical interpretation of the relationship between ENSO and global climate change. Topics considered include global dynamics of ENSO, ENSO triggers, and climate prediction and predictability.Revised November 14, 2002; accepted November 28, 2002 Published online: June 12, 2003     

ENSO事件与区域气候异常的统计事实

利用实测气象资料,统计分析了山东省80年代以来气象要素异常百分比的年季变化,发现气象要素异常发生的站次有逐渐增加的趋势,ENSO事件是气象要素发生异常的主要原因。     

Advances in research of ENSO changes and the associated impacts on Asian-Pacific climate

This review provides a summary on the recent major advances in research of ENSO changes and the associated impacts on Asian-Pacific climate. Achievements in the following topics are summarized: 1) the asymmetry between El Niño and La Niña; 2) the different features of central Pacific (CP) El Niño and eastern Pacific (EP) El Niño; 3) the change of ENSO in a warming world, including analysis of pre-industrial control simulation, historical simulation and climate projections of coupled climate system model; 4) Impact of EP ENSO on warm-pool air-sea interaction and East Asianwestern North Pacific summer monsoon; 5) Impacts of CP ENSO on Asian-Pacific climate, with focus on East Asian seasonal precipitation and tropical cyclones in the western Pacific. Research results published in the recent 5 years are the major sources for this review. Based on the review of the current progresses, some challenging issues needed to be investigated in the future are highlighted.     

The impact of combined ENSO and PDO on the PNA climate: a 1,000-year climate modeling study

This study analyzes the atmospheric response to the combined Pacific interannual ENSO and decadal–interdecadal PDO variability, with a focus on the Pacific-North American (PNA) sector, using a 1,000-year long integration of the Canadian Center for Climate Modelling and Analysis (CCCma) coupled climate model. Both the tropospheric circulation and the North American temperature suggest an enhanced PNA-like climate response and impacts on North America when ENSO and PDO variability are in phase. The anomalies of the centers of action for the PNA-like pattern are significantly different from zero and the anomaly pattern is field significant. In association with the stationary wave anomalies, large stationary wave activity fluxes appear in the mid-high latitudes originating from the North Pacific and flowing downstream toward North America. There are significant Rossby wave source anomalies in the extratropical North Pacific and in the subtropical North Pacific. In addition, the axis of the Pacific storm track shifts southward with the positive PNA. Atmospheric heating anomalies associated with ENSO variability are confined primarily to the tropics. There is an anomalous heating center over the northeast Pacific, together with anomalies with the same polarity in the tropical Pacific, for the PDO variability. The in-phase combination of ENSO and PDO would in turn provide anomalous atmospheric energy transports towards North America from both the Tropical Pacific and the North Pacific, which tends to favor the occurrence of stationary wave anomalies and would lead to a PNA-like wave anomaly structure. The modeling results also confirm our analysis based on the observational record in the twentieth century.     

The influence of ENSO on the summer climate change in China and its mechanism

The influence of ENSO on the summer climate change in China and its mechanism from the observed data is discussed. It is discovered that in the developing stage of ENSO, the SST in the western tropical Pacific is colder in summer, the convective activities may be weak around the South China Sea and the Philippines. As a consequence, the subtropical high shifted southward. Therefore, a drought may be caused in the Indo-China peninsula and in the South China. Moreover, in midsummer the subtropical high is weak over the Yangtze River valley and Huaihe River valley, and the flood may be caused in the area from the Yangtze River valley to Huaihe River valley. On the contrary, in the decaying stage of ENSO, the convective activities may be strong around the Philippines, and the subtropical high shifted northward, a drought may be caused in the Yangtze River valley and Huaihe River valley.     

海温异常对东亚夏季风影响机理的研究进展

利用湖北省梅雨监测资料、国家气候中心新百项指数和NCEP/NCAR环流资料,分析了2020年湖北梅雨异常特征及其成因。结果表明：（1）2020年湖北梅雨持续时间异常长,为54 d,仅次于1996年;梅雨量异常多、强度强、雨日率大,均为1961年以来第1位。（2）高空西风急流、副热带高压、夏季风系统的冬夏调整季节性进程早,是造成湖北入梅早的主要原因。西风急流和副热带高压在7月下旬北跳,较常年时间偏晚,导致了出梅晚。入梅早、出梅晚,梅雨持续时间异常长。（3）在前冬El Niño事件、春夏热带印度洋海温偏暖和北大西洋三极子负位相的共同影响下,欧亚中高纬经向环流发展,冷空气活跃,副热带高压强且位置稳定,西侧水汽输送强,冷暖气流在长江中下游交汇,造成湖北省梅雨量异常偏多。