Cold Season Southwest Asia Precipitation Sensitivity to El Niño–Southern Oscillation Events
Autor: | Andrew Hoell, Tao Zhang, Taiyi Xu, Mathew Barlow |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Wet season
Atmospheric Science Probability of precipitation 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Ocean current Tropics Atmospheric model 010502 geochemistry & geophysics 01 natural sciences Atmosphere La Niña Climatology Environmental science Precipitation 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
Zdroj: | Journal of Climate. 31:4463-4482 |
ISSN: | 1520-0442 0894-8755 |
Popis: | The sensitivity of southwest Asia (25°–40°N, 40°–70°E) precipitation during the November–April rainy season to four types of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, eastern Pacific (EP) and central Pacific (CP) El Niño and La Niña, is assessed using an ensemble of atmospheric model simulations forced by 1979–2015 boundary conditions. Sensitivity is assessed in terms of 1) the spread of precipitation across the ensemble members around the ensemble mean, 2) the probability of precipitation falling into the upper and lower terciles of the historical distribution, and 3) the relationship between the tropical atmosphere and southwest Asia precipitation during ENSO. During CP La Niña, the magnitude of the below-average mean precipitation exceeds the magnitude of the precipitation spread, thereby conditioning the probability of lower-tercile southwest Asia precipitation to greater than 70%. By contrast, EP La Niña does not alter the odds of southwest Asia precipitation terciles, as the magnitude of the near-zero mean precipitation is overwhelmed by the magnitude of the precipitation spread. EP and CP El Niño similarly result in above-average mean precipitation whose magnitude approaches the magnitude of the precipitation spread, thereby conditioning the probability of upper-tercile southwest Asia precipitation to around 50% region-wide. However, the notable effect of the precipitation spread during El Niño allows for a 20%–30% probability that the regional precipitation falls into the lower tercile. ENSO types simultaneously modify the probability of eastern Indian Ocean precipitation and southwest Asia precipitation, supporting the hypothesis that the tropical eastern Indian Ocean atmosphere serves as the medium by which ENSO forcing is communicated to southwest Asia. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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