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Tropical precipitation anomalies and d‐excess evolution during El Niño 2014‐16
Authors:Ricardo Sánchez‐Murillo  Ana M. Durán‐Quesada  Christian Birkel  Germain Esquivel‐Hernández  Jan Boll
Affiliation:1. Stable Isotope Research Group, National University of Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica;2. Centre of Geophysical Research, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica;3. Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Planetary Physics, School of Physics, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica;4. Department of Geography, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica;5. Northern Rivers Institute, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland;6. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, Washington, USA
Abstract:The last 2014‐16 El Niño event was among the three strongest episodes on record. El Niño considerably changes annual and seasonal precipitation across the tropics. Here, we present a unique stable isotope data set of daily precipitation collected in Costa Rica prior to, during, and after El Niño 2014‐16, in combination with Lagrangian moisture source and precipitation anomaly diagnostics. δ2H composition ranged from ‐129.4 to +18.1 (‰) while δ18O ranged from ‐17.3 to +1.0 (‰). No significant difference was observed among δ18O (P=0.186) and δ2H (P=0.664) mean annual compositions. However, mean annual d‐excess showed a significant decreasing trend (from +13.3 to +8.7 ‰) (P<0.001) with values ranging from +26.6 to ‐13.9 ‰ prior to and during the El Niño evolution. The latter decrease in d‐excess can be partly explained by an enhanced moisture flux convergence across the southeastern Caribbean Sea coupled with moisture transport from northern South America by means of an increased Caribbean Low Level Jet regime. During 2014‐15, precipitation deficit across the Pacific domain averaged 46% resulting in a very severe drought; while a 94% precipitation surplus was observed in the Caribbean domain. Understanding these regional moisture transport mechanisms during a strong El Niño event may contribute to a) better understanding of precipitation anomalies in the tropics and b) re‐evaluate past stable isotope interpretations of ENSO events in paleoclimatic archives within the Central America region.
Keywords:Costa Rica  ENSO  d‐excess  moisture transport  tropical precipitation
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