El Niño teleconnection to the Euro-Mediterranean late-winter: the role of extratropical Pacific modulation
International audience Abstract El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) represents the major driver of interannual climate variability at global scale. Observational and model-based studies have fostered a long-standing debate on the shape and intensity of the ENSO influence over the Euro-Mediterranean...
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International audience Abstract El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) represents the major driver of interannual climate variability at global scale. Observational and model-based studies have fostered a long-standing debate on the shape and intensity of the ENSO influence over the Euro-Mediterranean sector. Indeed, the detection of this signal is strongly affected by the large internal variability that characterizes the atmospheric circulation in the North Atlantic–European (NAE) region. This study explores if and how the low-frequency variability of North Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) may impact the El Niño-NAE teleconnection in late winter, which consists of a dipolar pattern between middle and high latitudes. A set of idealized atmosphere-only experiments, prescribing different phases of the anomalous SST linked to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) superimposed onto an El Niño-like forcing in the tropical Pacific, has been performed in a multi-model framework, in order to assess the potential modulation of the positive ENSO signal. The modelling results suggest, in agreement with observational estimates, that the PDO negative phase (PDO − ) may enhance the amplitude of the El Niño-NAE teleconnection, while the dynamics involved appear to be unaltered. On the other hand, the modulating role of the PDO positive phase (PDO + ) is not reliable across models. This finding is consistent with the atmospheric response to the PDO itself, which is robust and statistically significant only for PDO − . Its modulation seems to rely on the enhanced meridional SST gradient and the related turbulent heat-flux released along the Kuroshio–Oyashio extension. PDO − weakens the North Pacific jet, whereby favoring more poleward propagation of wave activity, strengthening the El Niño-forced Rossby wave-train. These results imply that there might be conditional predictability for the interannual Euro-Mediterranean climate variability depending on the background state. |
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El Niño teleconnection to the Euro-Mediterranean late-winter: the role of extratropical Pacific modulation |
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El Niño teleconnection to the Euro-Mediterranean late-winter: the role of extratropical Pacific modulation |
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El Niño teleconnection to the Euro-Mediterranean late-winter: the role of extratropical Pacific modulation |
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El Niño teleconnection to the Euro-Mediterranean late-winter: the role of extratropical Pacific modulation |
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El Niño teleconnection to the Euro-Mediterranean late-winter: the role of extratropical Pacific modulation |
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el niño teleconnection to the euro-mediterranean late-winter: the role of extratropical pacific modulation |
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ftutoulouse3hal:oai:HAL:meteo-03478096v1 2024-09-15T18:24:06+00:00 El Niño teleconnection to the Euro-Mediterranean late-winter: the role of extratropical Pacific modulation Benassi, Marianna Conti, Giovanni Gualdi, Silvio Ruggieri, Paolo Materia, Stefano García-Serrano, Javier Palmeiro, Froila Batté, Lauriane Ardilouze, Constantin Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici Bologna (CMCC) Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna (UNIBO) Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion (BSC-CNS) Centre national de recherches météorologiques (CNRM) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2021-05-03 https://meteofrance.hal.science/meteo-03478096 https://meteofrance.hal.science/meteo-03478096/document https://meteofrance.hal.science/meteo-03478096/file/2021_Article_-2.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05768-y en eng HAL CCSD Springer Verlag info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s00382-021-05768-y meteo-03478096 https://meteofrance.hal.science/meteo-03478096 https://meteofrance.hal.science/meteo-03478096/document https://meteofrance.hal.science/meteo-03478096/file/2021_Article_-2.pdf doi:10.1007/s00382-021-05768-y http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 0930-7575 EISSN: 1432-0894 Climate Dynamics https://meteofrance.hal.science/meteo-03478096 Climate Dynamics, 2021, ⟨10.1007/s00382-021-05768-y⟩ [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean Atmosphere info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2021 ftutoulouse3hal https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05768-y 2024-06-25T00:11:19Z International audience Abstract El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) represents the major driver of interannual climate variability at global scale. Observational and model-based studies have fostered a long-standing debate on the shape and intensity of the ENSO influence over the Euro-Mediterranean sector. Indeed, the detection of this signal is strongly affected by the large internal variability that characterizes the atmospheric circulation in the North Atlantic–European (NAE) region. This study explores if and how the low-frequency variability of North Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) may impact the El Niño-NAE teleconnection in late winter, which consists of a dipolar pattern between middle and high latitudes. A set of idealized atmosphere-only experiments, prescribing different phases of the anomalous SST linked to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) superimposed onto an El Niño-like forcing in the tropical Pacific, has been performed in a multi-model framework, in order to assess the potential modulation of the positive ENSO signal. The modelling results suggest, in agreement with observational estimates, that the PDO negative phase (PDO − ) may enhance the amplitude of the El Niño-NAE teleconnection, while the dynamics involved appear to be unaltered. On the other hand, the modulating role of the PDO positive phase (PDO + ) is not reliable across models. This finding is consistent with the atmospheric response to the PDO itself, which is robust and statistically significant only for PDO − . Its modulation seems to rely on the enhanced meridional SST gradient and the related turbulent heat-flux released along the Kuroshio–Oyashio extension. PDO − weakens the North Pacific jet, whereby favoring more poleward propagation of wave activity, strengthening the El Niño-forced Rossby wave-train. These results imply that there might be conditional predictability for the interannual Euro-Mediterranean climate variability depending on the background state. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier: HAL-UPS Climate Dynamics 58 7-8 2009 2029 |