The Amplitude-Duration Relation of Observed El Nino Events

The authors demonstrate that the El Ni o events in the pre-and post-1976 periods show two ampli-tude-duration relations. One is that the stronger El Ni o events have longer durations, which is robust for the moderate El Ni o events; the other is that the stronger El Ni o events have shorter durations but for strong El Nio events. By estimating the sign and amplitude of the nonlinear dynamical heating (NDH) anomalies, the authors illustrate that the NDH anomalies are negligible for moderate El Nio events but large for strong El Nio events. In particular, the large NDH anomalies for strong El Nio events are positive during the growth and mature phases, which favor warmer El Nio events. During the decay phase, however, the negative NDH anomalies start to arise and become increasingly significant with the evolution of the El Nio events, in which the negative NDH anomalies dampen the sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) and cause the El Nio events to reach the SST normal state earlier. This pattern suggests that the nonlinearity tends to increase the intensities of strong El Nio events and shorten their duration, which, together with the previous results showing a positive correlation between the strength of El Nio events and the significance of the effect of nonlinear advection on the events (especially the suppression of nonlinearity on the SSTA during the decay phase), shows that the strong El Nio events tend to have the amplitude-duration relation of the stronger El Nio events with shorter durations. This result also lends support to the assertion that moderate El Nio events possess the amplitude-duration relation of stronger El Nio events with longer durations.     

Indices of El Nio and El Nio Modoki:An Improved El Nio Modoki Index

In recent years, El Nio Modoki (a type of pseudo-El Nio) has been distinguished as a unique large-scale ocean warming phenomenon happening in the central tropical Pacific that is quite different from the traditional El Nio. In this study, EOF analysis was used to successfully separate El Nio and El Nio Modoki. The abilities of the NINO3 index, NINO3.4 index, NINO1+2 index and NINO4 index in characterizing El Nio were explored in detail. The resulting suggestion was that, comparatively, NINO3 is the op...     

A New Approach for Classifying Two Types of El Nio Events

正In recent decades, the typical El Nio events with the warmest SSTs in the tropical eastern Pacific have become less common, and a different of El Nio with the warmest SSTs in the central Pacific, which is flanked on the east and west by cooler SSTs, has become more fre-quent. The more recent type of El Nio was referred to as central Pacific El Nio, warm pool El Nio, or dateline El Nio, or the El Nio Modoki. Central Pacific El Nio links to a different tropical-to-extratropical teleconnection and exerts different impacts on climate, and several classification approaches have been proposed. In this study, a new classification approach is proposed, which is based on the linear combination (sum or difference) of the two leading Empirical Orthogonal Functions (EOFs) of tropical Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA), and the typical El Ni o index (TENI) and the central El Nio index (CENI) are able to be derived by projecting the observed SSTA onto these combinations. This classification not only reflects the characteristics of non-orthogonality between the two types of events but also yields one period peaking at approximate two to seven years. In particular, this classification can distin-guish the different impacts of the two types of events on rainfall in the following summer in East China. The typical El Nio events tend to induce intensified rainfall in the Yangtze River valley, whereas the central Pacific El Nio tends to induce intensified rainfall in the Huaihe River valley. Thus, the present approach may be appropriate for studying the impact of different types of El Nio on the East Asian climate.     

Sensitivity Difference in the Extratropical Atmosphere to Two Types of El Nio Events

A comparison of sensitivity in extratropical circulation in the Northern Hemisphere(NH)and Southern Hemisphere(SH)is conducted through observational analyses and diagnostic linear model experiments for two types of El Nio events,the traditional El Nio with the strongest warmth in the eastern tropical Pacific(EP El Nio)and the El Nio Modoki with the strongest warmth in the central tropical Pacific(CP El Nio).It is shown that CP El Nio favors the occurrence of a negative-phase Northern Annular Mode(NAM),while EP El Nio favors that of the Pacific-North American(PNA)pattern.In SH,both EP and CP El Nio induce a negative phase Southern Annular Mode(SAM).However,the former has a greater amplitude,which is consistent with the stronger sea surface temperature(SST)warmth.The difference in the two types of El Nio events in NH may originate from the dependence of heating-induced extratropical response on the location of initial heating,which may be associated with activity of the stationary wave.In SH,the lack of sensitivity to the location of heating can be associated with weaker activity of the stationary wave therein.     

Connections Between Different Types of El Nio and Southern/Northern Oscillation

It has long been acknowledged that there are two types of El Nio events, i.e., the eastern Pacific El Nio (EE) and the central Pacific El Nio (CE), according to the initial position of the anomalous warm water and its propagation direction. In this paper, the oceanic and atmospheric evolutions and the possible mechanisms of the two types of El Nio events were examined. It is found that all the El Nio events, CE or EE, could be attributed to the joint impacts of the eastward advection of warm water from the western Pacific warm pool (WPWP) and the local warming in the equatorial eastern Pacific. Before the occurrence of CE events, WPWP had long been in a state of being anomalous warm, so the strength of eastward advection of warm water was much stronger than that of EE, which played a major role in the formation of CE. While for the EE events, most contribution came from the local warming of the equatorial eastern Pacific. It is further identified that the immediate cause leading to the difference of the two types of El Nio events was the asynchronous variations of the Southern Oscillation (SO) and the Northern Oscillation (NO) as defined by Chen in 1984. When the transition from the positive phase of the NO (NO+) to NO- was prior to that from SO+ to SO-, there would be eastward propagation of westerly anomalies from the tropical western Pacific induced by NO and hence the growth of warm sea surface temperature anomalies in WPWP and its eastward propagation. This was followed by lagged SO-induced weakening of southeast trade winds and local warming in the equatorial eastern Pacific. These were conducive to the occurrence of the CE. On the contrary, the transition from SO+ to SO- leading the transition of NO would favor the occurrence of EE type events.     

两类El Nio对中国东部春季降水的影响

采用1951—2012年我国160站降水资料、NCEP/NCAR再分析资料以及NOAA提供的海表温度、Nio3.4指数等资料,运用EOF分析方法和合成分析等方法分析了两类El Nio(传统El Nio和El Nio Modoki)对我国东部春季降水的影响。结果表明:传统的El Nio和第二类厄尔尼诺El Nio Modoki对我国华南地区广东一带春季降水影响较大,传统厄尔尼诺年(第二类厄尔尼诺年)广东地区降水偏多(少)。它们的影响机制与菲律宾反气旋、西太平洋副热带高压位置的偏移有关,传统厄尔尼诺年(第二类厄尔尼诺年)副热带高压位置偏南(北),华南地区对流增大(小),降水偏多(少)。     

Connections Between Different Types of El Nio and Southern/Northern Oscillation

It has long been acknowledged that there are two types of El Nio events, i.e., the eastern Pacific El Nio (EE) and the central Pacific El Nio (CE), according to the initial position of the anomalous warm water and its propagation direction. In this paper, the oceanic and atmospheric evolutions and the possible mechanisms of the two types of El Nio events were examined. It is found that all the El Nio events, CE or EE, could be attributed to the joint impacts of the eastward advection of warm water from...     

赤道太平洋西风异常与El Nio的关系

分析了 1 980年以来赤道太平洋西风异常观测资料 ,并利用POM海洋模式模拟了赤道太平洋海温对不同类型西风异常的响应。分析和数值模拟试验结果都表明 ,赤道太平洋上的西风异常可以引起赤道中东太平洋海温升高 ,但是ElNi no事件是否能发生 ,则与西风异常的位置、强度和东移有关。只有当赤道中太平洋 ( 1 60°E～ 1 60°W )出现一定强度的西风异常并较快东移 ,才有利于ElNi no发生。     

El Nio事件大气-洋流异常与暖海温传播机理研究

利用1971~2000年逐月SODA(Simple Ocean Data Assimilation)同化资料(Carton等,2004)、1980~2000年逐月NCEP/NCAR再分析资料(Kalnay等,1996)探讨中部型(暖海水首先出现在120°W以西)和东部型(暖海水首先出现在120°W以东)El Nino事件赤道纬向风应力及洋流的异常变化与暖海水信号的传播特征。研究指出:(1)中部型和东部型El Nio事件发生时,太平洋上赤道海表最大西风应力距平在西太平洋地区都有显著的东传现象,但中部型El Nio事件西风应力距平强度强,造成西太平洋赤道表层的东向流可达东太平洋地区,这类El Nio事件强度偏强。(2)中部型El Nio事件,赤道表层洋流辐合区及其下沉运动由西太平洋向东太平洋传播,辐合下沉运动抑制了深层冷海水上翻,西太平洋暖水能够传到东太平洋与西太平洋赤道表层洋流辐合区及其下沉运动的东移有关。(3)东部型El Nio事件西太平洋赤道表层洋流辐合区及其下沉运动没能直接传到东太平洋地区,东太平洋暖水形成与局地(120°W以东)辐合下沉运动抑制深层冷海水上翻有关;东部型El Nio事件暖池次表层的暖水,不是沿着西太平洋赤道次表层向东传播到东太平洋地区,而是由南太平洋西边界流将暖池海水带到40°S左右的西风漂流区,再由西风漂流平流到东太平洋。     

热带太平洋经向风应力异常与El Nio的发生——(Ⅱ)动力学分析(英文)

第一部分（Ｚｈａｎｇ ｅｔ ａｌ，２００１）的资料分析表明，Ｅｌ Ｎｉｏ事件发生之前在赤道中东太平洋存在着显著的异常经向风应力辐合、为了分析这种超前的辐合经向风应力距平在其后的ＥｌＮｉｏ事件发生中的动力作用，本文利用简单热带海洋动力学模式，从动力学上研究了热带海洋对关于赤道辐合的理想经向风应力强迫的响应，指出赤道东太平洋出现在Ｅｌ Ｎｉｏ事件之前的辐合经向风应力异常有利于Ｅｌ　Ｎｉｏ事件的发生。辐合的经向风应力强迫作用于热带海洋，会激发出西传的Ｒｏｓｓｂｙ波，使得赤道附近的海洋混合层变厚。由于耗散的影响，最大的增厚区位于强迫区域。当这个强迫作用于赤道东太平洋时，这将有利于以 Ｎｌ　Ｎｉｏ事件发生；另一方面，Ｒｏｓｓｂｙ波响应在赤道及其附近使得表层海水向西流动，中东太平洋表层水的不断向西输送有利于表层水在西太平洋堆积，为后来暖事件的发生累积能量。     

Delayed Impacts of the El Nio Episodes in the Central Pacific on the Summertime Climate Anomalies of Eastern China in 2003 and 2007

In the summers of 2003 and 2007, eastern China suffered similar climate disasters with severe flooding in the Huaihe River valley and heat waves in the southern Yangtze River delta and South China. Using SST data and outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) data from NOAA along with reanalysis data from NCEP/NCAR, the 2002/03 and 2006/07 El Nio episodes in the central Pacific and their delayed impacts on the following early summertime climate anomalies of eastern China were analyzed. The possible physical progres...     

两类El Nio事件对我国河西走廊地区水文气象要素的影响

在两类El Nio事件下,通过滑动平均,对河西走廊地区降水量、气温及出山径流量与ElNio的相关性进行了研究,并用距平法分析了1959-2005年期间两类El Nio事件对研究区气温、降水量和出山径流量变化的具体影响。结果表明,整个河西地区受El Ni珘no较强影响,在第一类El Nio事件年,高温少雨、出山径流量偏少;第二类El Nio事件年该地区低温多雨、出山径流量较丰。相比高海拔山区,气温在低海拔地区对El Nio响应程度更高,降水对El Nio的响应在山区和低海拔平原区差别不大,均表现出较高的敏感性。与出山径流量相比,降水量和气温对El Nio的响应更高一些。     

两类El Nio事件对我国河西走廊地区水文气象要素的影响

在两类El Nio事件下,通过滑动平均,对河西走廊地区降水量、气温及出山径流量与ElNio的相关性进行了研究,并用距平法分析了1959-2005年期间两类El Nio事件对研究区气温、降水量和出山径流量变化的具体影响。结果表明,整个河西地区受El Ni珘no较强影响,在第一类El Nio事件年,高温少雨、出山径...     

热带太平洋地区风场异常和与El Nio有关的年际变化

利用1964~1993年NCEP/NCAR再分析风应力资料和中国科学院大气物理研究所发展的14层热带太平洋环流模式(OGCM),对热带太平洋与El Ni~no有关的年际变化进行了研究。首先,分析了西太平洋暖池次表层海温异常(SOTA)与Ni~no 3区海表温度异常(SSTA)的年际变化关系,发现在El Ni~no事件之前,暖池的次表层海温都有明显正异常出现,它的东传导致了El Ni~no的发生,并且SOTA的传播随纬度变化,沿赤道东传,在赤道外西传。然后,选取了20世纪70年代和80年代两次最强的El Ni~no事件讨论了引起这种机制的可能原因———西风异常的作用。最后,对1964~1993所有的El Ni~no年的风场、次表层海温和海表温度的异常进行了综合分析。     

El Nio事件发生和消亡中热带太平洋纬向风应力的动力作用 Ⅱ.模式结果分析

为了分析 ＥＩ Ｎｉｏ事件发生和消亡中热带太平洋纬向风应力的动力作用，建立一个类似于Ｚｅｂｉａｋ的简单热带海洋数值模式，在观测到的风应力异常的强迫下，模拟赤道太平洋地区 １９７１年１月至 １９９８年８月海表温度异常的变化。结果表明，模式对观测的Ｎｉｏ３区海表温度异常（ＳＳＴＡ）有很好的模拟能力。模拟和观测Ｎｉ区ＳＳＴＡ之间的相关系数可达 ０．９０。模式对 Ｅｌ Ｎｉｏ事件期间赤道太平洋海表温度异常随时间变化也有较好的模拟能力。为了分析Ｅｌ Ｎｉｏ期间ＳＳＴＡ的空间分布及其随时间变化的动力学机制，还对１９８６～１９８９年 ＥＮＳＯ循环期间赤道太平洋地区观测的 ＳＳＴＡ的传播特征及其形成机制进行了分析。模式较好地模拟出了观测到的赤道太平洋地区ＳＳＴＡ的传播特征，即从１９８６年底至１９８７年 ４月， ＳＳＴＡ具有向东传播的特征，从 １９８７年 ６月至 １９８８年 ２月具有向西传播的特征。动力学分析的结果表明，赤道中西太平洋地区的缔向风应力异常对 Ｅｌ Ｎｉｏ事件的发生和消亡具有重要作用。赤道中西太平洋地区的西风异常可强迫出东传的Ｋｅｌｖｉｎ波，这个东传的 Ｋｅｌｖｉｎ波对正 ＳＳＴＡ的东传起主要作用，当这个东传的 Ｋｅｌｖ     

Has the Problem of a Permanent El Nio been Resolved for the Mid-Pliocene?

The mid-Pliocene, the most recent warm geological period, is thought to be indicative of the fate of the Earth's climate under global warming. Earlier evidence has suggested that permanent El Nio-like conditions existed in the mid-Pliocene, though the concept of a permanent El Nio remains controversial. Here, the authors analyzed Nio 3.4 SST in pre-industrial and mid-Pliocene simulations with the low-resolution version of the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM-L). The simulated mid-Pliocene Nio3.4 SST, with a smaller standard deviation, indicated that a weaker ENSO existed in the mid-Pliocene relative to the pre-industrial experiment. Compared with earlier modeling studies, our simulations show that the problem of ENSO's standard deviations in the mid-Pliocene remains unresolved, although the mean and the period of ENSO in the mid-Pliocene have been resolved by earlier geological and modeling studies.     

Distinguished Effects of Interannual Salinity Variability on the Development of the Central-Pacific El Ni o Events

El Nio events in the central equatorial Pacific (CP) are gaining increased attention,due to their increasing intensity within the global warming context.Various physical processes have been identified in the climate system that can be responsible for the modulation of El Nio,especially the effects of interannual salinity variability.In this work,a comprehensive data analysis is performed to illustrate the effects of interannual salinity variability using surface and subsurface salinity fields from the Met Office ENSEMBLES (EN3) quality controlled ocean dataset.It is demonstrated that during the developing phase of an El Nio event,a negative sea surface salinity (SSS) anomaly in the western-central basin acts to freshen the mixed layer (ML),decrease oceanic density in the upper ocean,and stabilize the upper layers.These related oceanic processes tend to reduce the vertical mixing and entrainment of subsurface water at the base of the ML,which further enhances the warm sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies associated with the El Nio event.However,the effects of interannually variable salinity are much more significant during the CP-El Nio than during the eastern Pacific (EP) El Nio,indicating that the salinity effect might be an important contributor to the development of CP-El Nio events.     

El Nio事件对其衰减阶段夏季中国降水季节内演变的影响及其机理

利用1979—2007年NOAA重建海温逐月资料和中国160站夏季降水资料,使用扩展奇异值分解(extended singular value decomposition,ESVD)方法,研究了冬季热带太平洋海温异常与次年夏季中国降水异常季节内演变型之间的关系,指出前冬El Nio事件是与次年夏季中国降水季节内变化相联系的最重要的热带太平洋海温异常模态。相应的降水异常季节内变化情况为:6月在长江以南为正异常,江淮流域有负异常;7月在华南沿海有负降水异常,而正异常北进到长江流域,华北地区也出现正降水异常;8月在长江南北分别为少雨和多雨。进一步研究前冬El Nio事件与次年春夏印度洋、太平洋海温异常、对流层低层风场异常以及副热带高压等的联系,结果表明:El Nio事件发生的次年春夏,热带西太平洋周边存在东负西正的海温异常分布;西太平洋反气旋异常较强;副高在6月、7月偏西偏北,但在8月迅速南退。虽然与El Nio事件相联系的6月与7月、8月的降水型不同,但是西太平洋反气旋异常带来的充沛水汽造成7月长江流域雨季多雨,8月副高迅速南退带来的又一次长江流域降水,造成了El Nio事件发生次年夏季长江流域涝而华南...     

两类El Nio发生前期大气海洋状况的对比分析

利用风场、20℃等温线深度、海表温度以及Wheeler·和Hendon提出的逐日MJO指数资料,通过合成分析方法对比分析了EP型和CP型El Nio发生前各要素场的特征,以及近30年来两类El Nio事件发生前MJO活动的差异。结果表明,在赤道西太平洋,EP型El Nio的异常西风要早于CP型El Nio出现,其强度也远远强于CP型事件。EP型El Nio的异常西风在发生前2个月已东扩至东太平洋地区,而CP型El Nio的异常西风在El Nio事件发生前3个月东扩至日界线附近,此后也只维持在日界线以西。而在赤道东太平洋,不同于EP型El Nio,CP型El Nio事件在El Nio事件发生前始终有偏东风存在。EP型El Nio温跃层有明显的加深东移现象,温跃层的演变要超前于海表温度的变化。由MJO处于5~8位相的异常概率分布,可知EP型El Nio在中西太平洋的MJO活动要比CP型El Nio早发生,比较赤道纬向风平方的均方差,发现EP型El Nio发生前对应的MJO活动要明显地强于CP型El Nio事件。     

El Nio位相期间印度洋海温异常对中国南部初夏降水及初夏亚洲季风影响的数值模拟研究

基于中国科学院大气物理研究所的ＩＡＰ ９Ｌ大气环流模式，设计并完成了赤道太平洋暖异常海温和印度洋地区的不同结构异常海温的强迫试验．以研究在 Ｅｌ Ｎｉｏ位相期间印度洋不同海温异常分布对初夏亚洲季风及我国南部地区初夏降水的影响。结果表明：ＥＩＮｉｏ位相期间印度洋异常海温的作用是不可忽视的。在 Ｅｌ Ｎｉｏ位相期间，印度洋不同的海温结构对越赤道气流异常，对印度、中南半岛及中国南方的降水分布有重要的影响。利用ＮＣＥＰ的资料进行合成分析，进一步证实了数值模拟结果的可靠性。