Role of the Indian Ocean salinity in monsoon and ENSO variability as simulated by a coupled ocean-atmosphere system
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In situ and satellite sea level data sets over 1980-1998 are used to estimate the interannual variations of the geostrophic zonal transport across the opening of the Northwestern Pacific boundary into the Celebes sea.
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The sea level interannual variations observed in the tropical Pacific over the period 1980-1998 show some strong asymmetry with respect to the equator.
This paper provides a detailed illustration that it can be much more beneficial for ENSO forecasting to use data to improve the model parameterizations rather than to modify the initial conditions to gain in consistency with the simulated coupled system.
This study examines the role of the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) variations on the El Nino/La Nina events simulated by a coupled ocean-atmosphere model of the tropical Pacific.
Introducing new parameterizations of subsurface temperature and atmospheric convection in the Cane and Zebiak's model allows to reproduce oscillations with a period close to 4 years, equatorial wind anomalies that are located close to the dateline and realistic amplitudes of SST, wind and thermocline anomalies in the equatorial Pacific both in warm and cold phases.
ENSO simulations are investigated in 30 year integrations of various Intermediate Coupled Models and compared with observed SST, wind and thermocline depth anomalies over the tropical Pacific.
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The analysis of TOPEX/POSEIDON sea level and ERS-1 zonal wind stress data gives evidence that first mode meridonal long Rossby waves fully reflected into Kelvin waves at the equatorial western Pacific boundary at different periods including the January-June 1994 period. The evolution of the conditions (zonal wind stress, sea surface temperature and sea level anomalies) in the central Pacific suggests that this reflection may have played a role in the reversal of cold to warm anomalies observed in the central Pacific in June-July 1994. To investigate the actual role of reflected Kelvin waves observed by TOPEX/POSEIDON, a simple ocean-atmosphere coupled model is designed. Starting from these initial conditions, several simulations are run for testing the role western bundary reflection evidenced in TOPEX/POSEIDON data. Coupled mechanisms are suggested to explain the low-frequency variability observed during this period.
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We found evidence in TOPEX/POSEIDON sea level data that equatorial first meridionsl mode Rossby waves reflected at the Pacific western boundary into Kelvin waves during the January-july 1994 period prior to the 1994-1995 El Nino event.