期刊
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
卷 27, 期 3, 页码 1070-1081出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00276.1
关键词
Pacific Ocean; Atmosphere-ocean interaction; Ekman pumping; transport; El Nino; Sea level; Tropical variability
资金
- NSF [1049219, TM1034798]
- International Pacific Research Center
- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
- NOAA
- Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR)
- Australian Research Council
- U.S. Department of Energy [DESC005110]
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1049219] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1049238] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
During strong El Nino events, sea level drops around some tropical western Pacific islands by up to 20-30 cm. Such events (referred to as taimasa in Samoa) expose shallow reefs, thereby causing severe damage to associated coral ecosystems and contributing to the formation of microatolls. During the termination of strong El Nino events, a southward movement of weak trade winds and the development of an anomalous anticyclone in the Philippine Sea are shown to force an interhemispheric sea level seesaw in the tropical Pacific that enhances and prolongs extreme low sea levels in the southwestern Pacific. Spectral features, in addition to wind-forced linear shallow water ocean model experiments, identify a nonlinear interaction between El Nino and the annual cycle as the main cause of these sea level anomalies.
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