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El Niño/Southern Oscillation
• Major climatic perturbation on the
planet
• Coupled atmosphere ocean process
• Key is the western tropical Pacific
– Ascending branch of the Walker
circulation
– Potential energy for Kelvin wave pulse
• www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/nino-home.html
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The Southern Oscillation
• Discovered in 1928 by
Sir Gilbert Walker
• Links ’s in global
climate indices
• Proposes a zonal
circulation cell over
the equatorial
Pacific
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The Southern Oscillation
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The Southern Oscillation
• Pressure ’s regulate strength of the trades
• El Niño periods = weak trades
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Southern Oscillation Index
• SOI = Tahiti - Darwin air
pressure ’s
• Low SOI = El Niño conditions
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Southern Oscillation
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Nino Regions
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Multivariate ENSO Index
• Combines observations of air pressure, zonal
& meridional components of wind, sea surface
temperature, air temperature and total
cloudiness.
• Positive MEI = ENSO conditions
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Walker Circulation
• East-to-west pressure gradients
drive trades
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Walker Circulation
• Vertical cell driven by warmest
waters
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Western Pacific Warm Pool
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Coupled Walker/Ocean Circulation
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Coupled Walker/Ocean Circulation
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El Niño
Events• Relaxation of
trades causes
warm pool to
slosh across
Pacific basin
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El Niño Conditions
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El Niño Conditions
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La Nina
• Opposite phase of the
ENSO cycle
• Intensified trades &
Walker circulation
• Thermocline undergoes
maximum upwelling
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EL NIÑO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO)
DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSION
issued by
CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER/NCEP
10 May 2010
A transition from El Niño to ENSO-neutral is underway.Sea surface temperatures are decreasing across much of the Pacific Ocean.Based on current observations and dynamical model forecasts, a transition to ENSO-neutral conditions is expected by June 2010, which will continue into the Northern Hemisphere summer 2010. Although most models predict ENSO-neutral conditions, there is a growing possibility of La Niña developing during the second half of 2010.
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Today…
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Today…
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Altimetry & ENSO States
• Most “action” is in the
tropical Pacific
• Effects are seen in
other places
– East subtropics
– Western NECC region
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Effects of an El Niño
• Region of ascending air
has moved to center of
equatorial Pacific
• Climate system shifts
over 10,000 km to east
• Affects the entire planet
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An El Niño History
• late 1800s Fishermen name El Niño to the periodic warm waters that appear off the coasts of Peru and Ecuador around Christmas.
• 1928 Gilbert Walker describes the Southern Oscillation.
• 1957 A large El Niño is observed which affects not just the coasts of Peru and Ecuador but the entire Pacific Ocean.
• 1969 Jacob Bjerknes links the Southern Oscillation with El Niño events.
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An El Niño History
• 1975 Wyrtki uses island sea level to show how eastward flow causes SST’s to rise in east Pacific.
• 1976 An idealized computer model demonstrates that winds over the far western Pacific can change SST off Peru.
• 1982 A severe El Niño develops unexpectedly, but is recorded in detail with newly developed ocean buoys.
• 1985 Several nations launch the Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere (TOGA) program.
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An El Niño History
• 1986 First coupled model of ocean & atmosphere predicts El Niño event.
• 1988 Researchers explain how the "memory" of the ocean--the lag between a change in the winds and the response of the ocean--influences terminations of El Niño and the onset of La Niña.
• 1996-1997 The array of instruments monitoring the Pacific, plus coupled ocean-atmosphere models, enable scientists to warn the public of an impending El Niño event.
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Coupled Walker/Ocean Circulation
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El Niño Conditions
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Effects of an El Niño
• Places that were wet are now dry and
vice versa
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Effects of an El Niño
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El Niño in
Australia
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El Niño in Australia
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Teleconnections • Discovered in 1928 by
Sir Gilbert Walker
• Links ’s in global
climate indices
• Proposes a zonal
circulation cell over
the equatorial
Pacific
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El Niño
• Hadley cells intensify as source of
heat is now in central equatorial
Pacific
• Jet stream intensifies & takes
south path
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El Niño in the United States
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El Niño in the United States
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El Niño in the United States
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El Niño in the United States
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El Niño & Hurricane Damage
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El Niño & Hurricane Damage
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El Niño & Diseases
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Delayed Oscillator Theory
• Seeds of El Nino destruction as it
starts...
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Delayed Oscillator Theory
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Delayed Oscillator Theory
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El Niño Conditions
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97-98 El Niño Event
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97/98 El Niño
• At its peak, the 97/98 El Niño
was biggest of all time
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97/98 El Niño
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97/98 El
Niño
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97/98 El Niño
• TOPEX/Poseidon sea level
anomaly - December 1, 1997
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97/98 El Niño
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OLR = outgoing longwave energy (high OLR = no clouds)
97/98 El Niño
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97/98 El Niño
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97/98 El Niño Movie
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More readings
• NOAA ENSO Page
www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/nino-
home.html
• Review of 97/98 El Nino
www.icess.ucsb.edu/~davey/
Geog163/950.pdf