The Role of Seasonality and the ENSO Mode in Central and East Pacific ENSO Growth and Evolution

Vimont, Daniel J.; Newman, Matthew; Battisti, David S.; Shin, Sang-Ik

doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0599.1

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The Role of Seasonality and the ENSO Mode in Central and East Pacific ENSO Growth and Evolution

2022
By Vimont, Daniel J. ; Newman, Matthew ; Battisti, David S. ; ...
Source: Journal of Climate, 35(11), 3195-3209

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Journal of Climate
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Vimont, Daniel J. ; Newman, Matthew ; Battisti, David S. ; Shin, Sang-Ik

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OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; PSL (Physical Sciences Laboratory) ; CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)

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A cyclostationary linear inverse model (CSLIM) is used to investigate the seasonal growth of tropical Pacific Ocean El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events with canonical, central Pacific (CP), or eastern Pacific (EP) sea surface temperature (SST) characteristics. Analysis shows that all types of ENSO events experience maximum growth toward final states occurring in November and December. ENSO events with EP characteristics also experience growth into May and June, but CP events do not. A single dominant “ENSO mode,” growing from an equatorial heat content anomaly into a characteristic ENSO-type SST pattern in about 9 months (consistent with the delayed/recharge oscillator model of ENSO), is essential for the predictable development of all ENSO events. Notably, its seasonality is responsible for the late-calendar-year maximum in ENSO amplification. However, this ENSO mode alone does not capture the observed growth and evolution of diverse ENSO events, which additionally involve the seasonal evolution of other nonorthogonal Floquet modes. EP event growth occurs when the ENSO mode is initially “covered up” in combination with other Floquet modes. The ENSO mode’s slow seasonal evolution allows it to emerge while the other modes rapidly evolve and/or decay, leading to strongly amplifying and more predictable EP events. CP events develop when the initial state has a substantial contribution from Floquet modes with meridional mode–like SST structures. Thus, while nearly all ENSO events involve the seasonally varying ENSO-mode dynamics, the diversity and predictability of ENSO events cannot be understood without identifying contributions from the remaining Floquet modes.
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Journal of Climate, 35(11), 3195-3209
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