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El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
Ocean-atmosphere interactions
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Take away concepts and ideas
What is El Niño, La Niña?Trade wind and Walker circulation.What is the Southern Oscillation?Tropical ocean-atmosphere coupling. ENSO changes in: SST gradients, surface
winds, sea surface height, upwelling, productivity, thermocline depth
Why do tropical Pacific SSTs oscillate?
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Trade winds How do they affect the tropical oceans?
Tradewinds
Hadley Cells
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Tropical surface and subsurface temperatures
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Tropical SSTs and rainfall
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Tropical SSTs, Climate, & Vegetation
Papua New Guinea Coastal Peru
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Normal State of the Pacific
Warm pool
Sea surface temperature, SST
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El Niño State of Pacific
Warm pool shifts eastward
“El Niño is a warming of the eastern tropical Pacific”
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SSTs and SST anomalies
Annual averageSST (°C)
SST Anomaly (°C)
SST Anomaly = SSTobs - SSTavg
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Largest El Niños of 20th century
SST Anomaly (relative to the average state)
1982
1997
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El Niño La Niña
Once developed, El Niños are known to shift temperature and precipitation patterns in many different regions of the world. These shifts, although varying somewhat from one El Niño to the next, are fairly consistent in the regions shaded on the map below.
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Hadley circulation
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Winds cause a general westward motion of tropical surface waters, causing the warmest waters to “pile up” at the western Pacific (western Pacific warm pool)
… and upwelling of cold waters in eastern basins
Ocean Response to Atmospheric Circulation
Warm pool
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Trade winds How do they affect the tropical oceans?
Tradewinds
Hadley Cells
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Tropical surface and subsurface temperatures
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Walker circulation
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Trade winds on the equator bring cold waters to surface
Equatorial upwelling
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Normal Conditions
Note features:
- East-west SST- upwelling- Thermocline depth- Sea surface height- Surface pressure- trade winds
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Hadley and Walker winds vary in phase:
when Hadley cell is strong, so is the walker circulation
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Transition to El Niño
Note changes in
- East-west SST- upwelling- Thermocline depth- Sea surface height- Surface pressure- trade winds
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Full El Niño conditions
What are changes in
- East-west SST- upwelling- Thermocline depth- Sea surface height- Surface pressure- trade winds
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SST anomalies for 1982 and 1997 El Niño Events
Sometimes called the “warm phase”
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SST anomalies for 1968 and 1998 La Niña Events
Sometimes called the “cool phase”
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Warm Phase
Cold phaseCool SST
warm SST
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Walker CirculationBritish mathematician, director general
of observations for India (formed after monsoon failure of 1877- worst famine in Indian history)
Arrived in 1904, shortly after huge famine caused by drought
Goal to predict Indian MonsoonFound that many global climate
variations, including Monsoon rains in India, were correlated with the Southern OscillationSir Gilbert Walker
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SOI = Tahiti SLP - Darwin SLP
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Average Climatology: 1933-1992
Tahiti
Darwin
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∆SLP
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Difference in Jan. SST between the two extreme ENSOepisodes of this century
nino3
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Blue = Atm pressure at DarwinRed = SST anomaly for the NINO3 region
Physical coupling between the ocean and atmosphere
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Connecting El Niño and the SO (ENSO)
The link between SO and El Niño was made convincingly by Bjerknes
Made extensive use of data gathered during 1957 (strong El Niño year)
Realized that unusual events separated by half the circumference of Earth could be linked together as parts of a huge coupled phenomenon ENSO– involving both the ocean and the atmosphere.
Prof. Jacob Bjerknes
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General Description of ENSO Processes
Bjerknes established the empirical connection between EN and SO. He also provided a hypothesis about the mechanism that underlies our present understanding.
The key is to appreciate how odd the “normal” state is– The easterly trades drive westward currents, bringing the cold
waters of the Peru Current from the South American coast– The coriolis force turns westward surface currents poleward,
causing divergence and upwelling– The trade winds push the warm upper layer waters poleward as
well as westward, pulling the thermocline to the surface in the east
– All are due to the easterly winds, but the easterly winds are also due to temperature contrasts along the equator. Thus there are positive feedbacks to reinforce both El Niño and La Niña phases
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A very simplified view of ocean-atm coupling
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Why does ENSO State tend to Oscillate?Equatorial ocean dynamicsKey observations by Klaus Wyrtki in 1970’sEl Nino is preceded by a transfer of warm water
from west to eastThis transfer is thought to trigger a warm eventWhat triggers the movement of water?
– In cold phase, waters cold (and low) in east, warm (and high) in west
– Warm water from west sloshes back and overshoots equilibrium- positive feedbacks mentioned before set of El Niño conditions
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Why does ENSO State tend to Oscillate?
Shortest Answer: Equatorial ocean dynamics
Short answer: Differing timescales of Kelvin and Rossby Wave propagation
Longer answer: The oscillation is made possible due to the asymmetry between eastward and westward oceanic motions (see 2-D Animation in notes).
Along the equator there is a relatively fast eastward motion called an equatorial Kelvin wave. Peaking somewhat off the equator are westward motions called Rossby waves. Time scale: <1 yr for the Kelvin waves to shift the warm pool eastward [once trades relax]; 2 yrs for the Rossby waves to return the warm pool to the west, to await another wind relax.
KelvinRossby
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Here is a 3-D animation the tropical Pacific as it cycles through an El Niño then La Niña event. The surface shown is sea-level (in cm) and the surface is colored according to the SST anomalies associated with each event.
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Prediction for Winter ‘09
“El Niño”
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Global SST anomalies - last week
http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu
Q: ENSO State?
A; NormalB: El NiñoC: La Niña
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El Niño Forecasting
Stephen E. ZebiakDirector General
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
Mark CaneChair, DEES
Vetlesen Professor
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What’s going to happen?
Forecasts courtesy of IRI (Lamont-Doherty)
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ENSO Prediction “Plumes”
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ENSO and Global Warming
Persistent El Niño?
Surface ocean warms uniformly.
Warming penetrates to thermocline.
Ocean-atm coupling sustains El Niño mode.
Persistent La Niña?
Surface ocean warms differentially; West warms more.
WEP SST warming drives convection there
Strengthens Walker Cell. Ocean-atm coupling
sustains La Niña mode.
Still no consensus