el niño-southern oscillation
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El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Current Weather Air-Sea Interactions ENSO ENSO Impacts Return Exam I For Next Class : Read Moran Ch. 8 (pp. 265-276). Driving Question. How do interactions between the ocean and atmosphere impact worldwide climate and short-term climate variability?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Current News and WeatherENSO TerminologyNeutral, Warm-Phase, and Cold-PhaseENSO Impacts
For Next Class: Read Moran Ch. 8 (pp. 265-276)
El Niño-Southern Oscillation
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What is ENSO and what are its three major phases?Why is ENSO important?
ENSO
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El Niño-Southern Oscillation
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ENSO is a coupled phenomenon, depending on feedbacks between the ocean and the atmosphere.Changes in the oceanic sea surface temperatures (SSTs) drive changes in atmospheric circulation which feedback and further alter the ocean.
ENSO
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Coupling of the ocean and atmosphere in the tropical Pacific OceanEl Niño (warm-phase of ENSO): above average sea-surface temperaturesLa Niña (cold-phase of ENSO): below average sea-surface temperaturesLa Nada (ENSO-neutral): average sea-surface temperatures
El Niño-Southern Oscillation
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ENSO
Neutral Conditions in the Tropical Pacific Contrast between relatively
high air pressure over the central and eastern tropical Pacific and relatively low air pressure over the western tropical Pacific ultimately drives the trade winds
Walker Circulation: east-west oriented atmospheric circulation across the equatorial Pacific
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Andes
Trade winds
Coastal upwelling
Figure: University of Washington
Cold water
Warm water
Thermocline
Temperature
Dep
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ThermoclineEkman
transport
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ENSO
Warm Phase With the onset of El Niño, air
pressure falls over the eastern tropical Pacific and rises over the western tropical Pacific• Trade winds slacken in the
western and central equatorial Pacific
• Warm surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific reduces upwelling
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El Niño (Warm Phase ENSO)
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1997 e-mail from Anton Seimon in Peru
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El Niño, La Niña, and the Southern Oscillation
Cold Phase• During La Niña, surface waters
are colder than usual over the central and eastern tropical Pacific and somewhat warmer than usual over the western tropical Pacific
• Lower than usual SST in the east topical Pacific inhibit rainfall while higher than usual SST in the west enhance rainfall
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Thermocline
PeruAustralia
Figura: NOAA PMEL
Positive feedback between ocean and atmosphere (Bjerknes 1969)
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1. Warming
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2. Displacement of convection
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3. Weakening of easterly winds
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4. Eastward currents and deepening of
thermocline
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El Niño, La Niña, and the Southern Oscillation
Frequency• Multivariate ESNO Index forms the basis for operational
definitions of El Niño and La Niña Based on six variables measured in the tropical Pacific
• sea-level air pressure• zonal component of surface wind• meridional component of surface wind• surface air temperature• sky cloud cover• sea-surface temperature
• ENSO Alert System launched in February 2009
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1982-83 El Niño 1997-98 El Niño
1998-99 La Niña
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Piura - Perú
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The rainfall in Piura and El Niño
1982-83
1997-98
19921972
1987
2002
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Rainfall occurs when sea surface temperature (SST) exceeds a threshold
Woodman, 1999
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Nevado Chacaltaya (2003)
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Nevado Chacaltaya (2015)
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Francou et al. 2004
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El Niño, La Niña, and the Southern Oscillation
Predicting and Monitoring ENSO• Atmosphere/ocean observational data from the
tropical Pacific obtained using the ENSO Observing System
Consists of an array of moored and drifting instrumented buoys, island
and coastal tide gauges, ship based measurements, and satellites
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ENSO Links
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_update/sstanim.shtml
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.html