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Mechanism for Southward Shift of Zonal Wind Anomalies During the Mature Phase of ENSO
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2021
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Source: Journal of Climate (2021)
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Journal Title:Journal of Climate
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Description:The cause of southward shift of anomalous zonal wind in the central equatorial Pacific (CEP) during ENSO mature winter was investigated through observational analyses and numerical model experiments. Based on an antisymmetric zonal momentum budget diagnosis using daily ERA-Interim data, a two-step physical mechanism is proposed. The first step involves advection of the zonal wind anomaly by the climatological mean meridional wind. The second step involves the development of an antisymmetric mode in the CEP, which promotes a positive contribution to the observed zonal wind tendency by the pressure gradient and Coriolis forces. Two positive feedbacks are responsible for the growth of the antisymmetric mode. The first involves the moisture–convection–circulation feedback, and the second involves the wind–evaporation–SST feedback. General circulation model experiments further demonstrated that the boreal winter background state is critical in generating the southward shift, and a northward shift of the zonal wind anomaly is found when the same SST anomaly is specified in boreal summer background state.
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Source:Journal of Climate (2021)
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ISSN:0894-8755;1520-0442;
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