The Simulation of Peak and Delayed ENSO Teleconnections
| Autor: | Hilary Spencer, Julia Slingo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Climate. 16:1757-1774 |
| ISSN: | 1520-0442 0894-8755 |
| Popis: | There is much evidence that El Nino and La Nina lead to significant atmospheric seasonal predictability across much of the globe. However, despite successful predictions of tropical Pacific SSTs, atmospheric seasonal forecasts have had limited success. This study investigates model errors in the Hadley Centre Atmospheric Model version 3 (HadAM3) by analyzing composites of similar El Nino and La Nina events at their peak in December–January–February (DJF) and through their decay in March–April–May (MAM). The large-scale, tropical ENSO teleconnections are modeled accurately by HadAM3 during DJF but the strongest extratropical teleconnection, that in the North Pacific during winter, is modeled inaccurately. The Aleutian low is frequently observed to shift eastward during El Nino but the modeled response always consists of a deepening of the low without a shift. This is traced to small errors in the sensitivity of precipitation to SST in the tropical Pacific, which does not display enough variability... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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