Tropospheric pathways of the late-winter ENSO teleconnection to Europe
The late-winter signal associated with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) over the European continent is unsettled. Two main anomalous patterns of sea-level pressure (SLP) can be identified: a “wave-like” pattern with two opposite-signed anomalies over Europe, and a pattern showing a single ano...
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ftupcatalunyair:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/374577 2024-09-15T18:24:22+00:00 Tropospheric pathways of the late-winter ENSO teleconnection to Europe Mezzina, Bianca García Serrano, Javier Ambrizzi, Tercio Matei, Daniela Manzini, Elisa Bladé, Ileana Barcelona Supercomputing Center 2022 11 p. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2117/374577 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06508-6 eng eng Springer https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-022-06508-6 Mezzina, B. [et al.]. Tropospheric pathways of the late-winter ENSO teleconnection to Europe. "Climate Dynamics", 2022, 0930-7575 1432-0894 http://hdl.handle.net/2117/374577 doi:10.1007/s00382-022-06508-6 Attribution 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria agroalimentària::Ciències de la terra i de la vida::Climatologia i meteorologia El Niño Current Teleconnections (Climatology) El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Sea-level pressure Tropospheric ENSO teleconnection Simulació per ordinador Article 2022 ftupcatalunyair https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06508-6 2024-07-25T11:06:55Z The late-winter signal associated with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) over the European continent is unsettled. Two main anomalous patterns of sea-level pressure (SLP) can be identified: a “wave-like” pattern with two opposite-signed anomalies over Europe, and a pattern showing a single anomaly (“semi-isolated”). In this work, potential paths of the tropospheric ENSO teleconnection to Europe and their role in favoring a more wave-like or semi-isolated pattern are explored. Outputs from historical runs of two versions of the MPI-ESM coupled model, which simulate these two types of patterns, are examined. A novel ray-tracing approach that accounts for zonal asymmetries in the background flow is used to test potential propagation paths in these simulations and in observations; three source regions are considered: the tropical Pacific, the North America/North Atlantic, and the tropical Atlantic. The semi-isolated pattern is suggested to be related to the well-known Rossby wave train emanating from the tropical Pacific, either via a split over northern North America or via reflection due to inhomogeneities in the background flow. The wave-like pattern, in turn, appears to be related to a secondary wave train emerging from the tropical Atlantic. The competition between these two pathways contributes to determining the actual surface response. B.M. and J.G.-S. were supported by the “Contratos Predoctorales para la Formación de Doctores” (BES-2016-076431) and “Ramón y Cajal” (RYC-2016-21181) programmes, respectively. Tercio Ambrizzi was supported by the National Institute of Science and Technology for Climate Change Phase 2 under CNPq Grant 465501/2014-1, 301397/2019-8; FAPESP Grants 2014/50848-9 and 2017/09659-6. This study also received funding from the Spanish ATLANTE project (PID2019-110234RB-C21). We acknowledge the World Climate research Programme’s Working Group on Coupled Modelling, which is responsible for CMIP. Technical support at BSC (Computational Earth Sciences group) is sincerely acknowledged. ... Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech: UPCommons - Global access to UPC knowledge Climate Dynamics |
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Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria agroalimentària::Ciències de la terra i de la vida::Climatologia i meteorologia El Niño Current Teleconnections (Climatology) El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Sea-level pressure Tropospheric ENSO teleconnection Simulació per ordinador |
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Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria agroalimentària::Ciències de la terra i de la vida::Climatologia i meteorologia El Niño Current Teleconnections (Climatology) El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Sea-level pressure Tropospheric ENSO teleconnection Simulació per ordinador Mezzina, Bianca García Serrano, Javier Ambrizzi, Tercio Matei, Daniela Manzini, Elisa Bladé, Ileana Tropospheric pathways of the late-winter ENSO teleconnection to Europe |
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The late-winter signal associated with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) over the European continent is unsettled. Two main anomalous patterns of sea-level pressure (SLP) can be identified: a “wave-like” pattern with two opposite-signed anomalies over Europe, and a pattern showing a single anomaly (“semi-isolated”). In this work, potential paths of the tropospheric ENSO teleconnection to Europe and their role in favoring a more wave-like or semi-isolated pattern are explored. Outputs from historical runs of two versions of the MPI-ESM coupled model, which simulate these two types of patterns, are examined. A novel ray-tracing approach that accounts for zonal asymmetries in the background flow is used to test potential propagation paths in these simulations and in observations; three source regions are considered: the tropical Pacific, the North America/North Atlantic, and the tropical Atlantic. The semi-isolated pattern is suggested to be related to the well-known Rossby wave train emanating from the tropical Pacific, either via a split over northern North America or via reflection due to inhomogeneities in the background flow. The wave-like pattern, in turn, appears to be related to a secondary wave train emerging from the tropical Atlantic. The competition between these two pathways contributes to determining the actual surface response. B.M. and J.G.-S. were supported by the “Contratos Predoctorales para la Formación de Doctores” (BES-2016-076431) and “Ramón y Cajal” (RYC-2016-21181) programmes, respectively. Tercio Ambrizzi was supported by the National Institute of Science and Technology for Climate Change Phase 2 under CNPq Grant 465501/2014-1, 301397/2019-8; FAPESP Grants 2014/50848-9 and 2017/09659-6. This study also received funding from the Spanish ATLANTE project (PID2019-110234RB-C21). We acknowledge the World Climate research Programme’s Working Group on Coupled Modelling, which is responsible for CMIP. Technical support at BSC (Computational Earth Sciences group) is sincerely acknowledged. ... |
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Tropospheric pathways of the late-winter ENSO teleconnection to Europe |
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Tropospheric pathways of the late-winter ENSO teleconnection to Europe |
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-022-06508-6 Mezzina, B. [et al.]. Tropospheric pathways of the late-winter ENSO teleconnection to Europe. "Climate Dynamics", 2022, 0930-7575 1432-0894 http://hdl.handle.net/2117/374577 doi:10.1007/s00382-022-06508-6 |
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