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| Roles of Wind Stress and Subsurface Cold Water in the Second-Year Cooling of the 2017/18 La Nina Event | |
Feng, Licheng1,2; Zhang, Rong-Hua3,4,5,6 ; Yu, Bo7; Han, Xue1
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| 2020-08-01 | |
| Source Publication | ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
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| ISSN | 0256-1530 |
| Volume | 37Issue:8Pages:847-860 |
| Abstract | After the strong 2015/16 El Nino event, cold conditions prevailed in the tropical Pacific with the second-year cooling of the 2017/18 La Nina event. Many coupled models failed to predict the cold SST anomalies (SSTAs) in 2017. By using the ERA5 and GODAS (Global Ocean Data Assimilation System) products, atmospheric and oceanic factors were examined that could have been responsible for the second-year cooling, including surface wind and the subsurface thermal state. A time sequence is described to demonstrate how the cold SSTAs were produced in the central-eastern equatorial Pacific in late 2017. Since July 2017, easterly anomalies strengthened in the central Pacific; in the meantime, wind stress divergence anomalies emerged in the far eastern region, which strengthened during the following months and propagated westward, contributing to the development of the second-year cooling in 2017. At the subsurface, weak negative temperature anomalies were accompanied by upwelling in the eastern equatorial Pacific, which provided the cold water source for the sea surface. Thereafter, both the cold anomalies and upwelling were enhanced and extended westward in the centraleastern equatorial Pacific. These changes were associated with the seasonally weakened EUC (the Equatorial Undercurrent) and strengthened SEC (the South Equatorial Current), which favored more cold waters being accumulated in the central-equatorial Pacific. Then, the subsurface cold waters stretched upward with the convergence of the horizontal currents and eventually outcropped to the surface. The subsurface-induced SSTAs acted to induce local coupled air-sea interactions, which generated atmospheric-oceanic anomalies developing and evolving into the second-year cooling in the fall of 2017. |
| Keyword | 2017 18 La Nina second-year cooling in 2017 wind stress anomalies subsurface cold anomalies |
| DOI | 10.1007/s00376-020-0028-4 |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| Language | 英语 |
| Funding Project | National Natural Science Foundation of China[41576029] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41690122(41690120)] ; National Program on Global Change and Air-Sea Interaction[GASIIPOVAI-03] ; National Key Research and Development Program[2018YFC1505802] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDA19060102] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB 40000000] |
| WOS Research Area | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
| WOS Subject | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
| WOS ID | WOS:000552173600002 |
| Publisher | SCIENCE PRESS |
| Citation statistics | |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Version | 出版稿 |
| Identifier | http://ir.qdio.ac.cn/handle/337002/168070 |
| Collection | 海洋环流与波动重点实验室 |
| Corresponding Author | Zhang, Rong-Hua |
| Affiliation | 1.Minist Nat Resources, Natl Marine Environm Forecasting Ctr, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China 2.Minist Nat Resources, Key Lab Marine Hazards Forecasting, Natl Marine Environm Forecasting Ctr, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Oceanol, Key Lab Ocean Circulat & Waves, Qingdao 266071, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Ocean Megasci, Qingdao 266071, Peoples R China 5.Pilot Natl Lab Marine Sci & Technol, Qingdao 266237, Peoples R China 6.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Quaternary Sci & Global Change, Xian 710061, Peoples R China 7.Beijing Weather Forecast Ctr, Beijing 100089, Peoples R China |
| Corresponding Author Affilication | Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Wave Studies, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Feng, Licheng,Zhang, Rong-Hua,Yu, Bo,et al. Roles of Wind Stress and Subsurface Cold Water in the Second-Year Cooling of the 2017/18 La Nina Event[J]. ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES,2020,37(8):847-860. |
| APA | Feng, Licheng,Zhang, Rong-Hua,Yu, Bo,&Han, Xue.(2020).Roles of Wind Stress and Subsurface Cold Water in the Second-Year Cooling of the 2017/18 La Nina Event.ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES,37(8),847-860. |
| MLA | Feng, Licheng,et al."Roles of Wind Stress and Subsurface Cold Water in the Second-Year Cooling of the 2017/18 La Nina Event".ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES 37.8(2020):847-860. |
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