Central Pacific El NinoWesterly wind eventsIn the past three decades, the strongest central Pacific (CP) El Nino event was observed in 2009-2010 by satellites. When intensity of this CP El Nino reached its maximum, large diurnal variations of sea surface temperature (SST) were also observed ...
: 10 November 2016 Published: 05 December 2016 Arnold Sullivan1, Jing-Jia Luo2, Anthony C. Hirst2, Daohua Bi1, Wenju Cai1 & Jinhai He3 During year-to-year El Niño events in recent decades, major sea surface warming has occurred frequently in the central Pacific. ...
El Niño has been recorded to change its properties since the 1980s, characterized by more common extreme El Niño and Central Pacific (CP) El Niño events. However, it is still unclear whether such change is externally forced or part of the natural variability. Here, we find that the...
The central Pacific zonal wind divergence and convergence index (CPZI) is defined in this paper, and the forming mechanism of CP El Nio (La Nia) events is discussed preliminarily. Results show that the divergence and convergence of the zonal wind anomaly (ZWA) is the key process in the for...
The 2002/03 El Ni?o event, a new type of El Ni?o with maximum warm anomaly occurring in the central equatorial Pacific, is known as central-Pacific(CP) El Ni?o. In this study, on the basis of an El Ni?o prediction system, roles of the initial ocean surface and subsurface states ...
North tropical Atlantic (NTA) spring sea surface temperature (SST) tends to be warmer (cooler) than normal in Central Pacific (CP) El Nino decaying years during 1960s to mid-1980s. However, the relationship between the NTA spring SST and CP El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is weakened ...
El Nio and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a cycle that is initiated in the equatorial Pacific Ocean and is recognized on interannual timescales by oscillating patterns in tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures (SST) and atmospheric circulations. Using correlation and regression analysis of datase...
2000 . Coral microatolls from the central Pacific record late Holocene El Niño . Geophysical Research Letters 27 : 1511 – 1514 , DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011407.Woodroffe, C. D. and M. K. Gagan, "Coral microatolls from the central Pacific record late Holocene El Nino." Geophysical Research...
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(e, unit: mm per day) retrieved by global precipitation climatology project data55 in the reconstruction season (March–April–May), and the composite anomaly fields of 850 hPa geopotential height (b), 850 hPa wind (d) and precipitation (f) in eight selected central Pacific El Nino years ...