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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 48, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2021GL093707
Keywords
EP El Nino; CP-I El Nino; CP-II El Nino; Australian monsoon; Pacific Meridional Mode
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- NSF's Climate & Large-scale Dynamics Program [AGS-1833075]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB42000000, XDA20060502]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41925024, 41876021, 42006030, 42006033]
- Key Special Project for Introduced Talents Team of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) [GML2019ZD0306, ISEE2018PY06]
- South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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This study analyzes two subtypes of Central Pacific (CP) El Nino and shows that they have different sea surface temperature evolution patterns and generation mechanisms, as well as potentially different responses to global warming.
This study analyzes two subtypes of Central Pacific (CP) El Nino and shows that they possess different sea surface temperature evolution patterns in the Indo-Pacific Oceans, distinct generation mechanisms, and can respond differently to global warming. The CP-I type is triggered in the tropical western Pacific by the weaker-than-normal Australian winter monsoon (AM) through a subsurface thermocline mechanism and is accompanied by significant Indian Ocean warming. The CP-II type onsets in the subtropical North Pacific by the Pacific Meridional Mode (PMM) through a surface coupling mechanism and is accompanied by weak warming anomalies in the Indian Ocean. Two climate models projections indicate that the CP-II type may occur more frequently than the CP-I type in the future due to changes in PMM and AM activities, which should weaken El Nino influences on the Indian Ocean and result in more El Nino events that onset from the North American coast.
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