The circulation of the eastern tropical Pacific: A review

WS Kessler - Progress in Oceanography, 2006 - Elsevier
During the 1950s and 1960s, an extensive field study and interpretive effort was made by
researchers, primarily at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to sample and understand …

ENSO variability and the eastern tropical Pacific: A review

C Wang, PC Fiedler - Progress in oceanography, 2006 - Elsevier
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) encompasses variability in both the eastern and
western tropical Pacific. During the warm phase of ENSO, the eastern tropical Pacific is …

Tropical explosive volcanic eruptions can trigger El Niño by cooling tropical Africa

M Khodri, T Izumo, J Vialard, S Janicot… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Stratospheric aerosols from large tropical explosive volcanic eruptions backscatter
shortwave radiation and reduce the global mean surface temperature. Observations suggest …

[HTML][HTML] Ocean circulation and tropical variability in the coupled model ECHAM5/MPI-OM

JH Jungclaus, N Keenlyside, M Botzet… - Journal of …, 2006 - journals.ametsoc.org
Ocean Circulation and Tropical Variability in the Coupled Model ECHAM5/MPI-OM in:
Journal of Climate Volume 19 Issue 16 (2006) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinearity and asymmetry of ENSO

SI An, FF Jin - Journal of Climate, 2004 - journals.ametsoc.org
El Niño events (warm) are often stronger than La Niña events (cold). This asymmetry is an
intrinsic nonlinear characteristic of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon …

TropFlux: Air-sea fluxes for the global tropical oceans—Description and evaluation

B Praveen Kumar, J Vialard, M Lengaigne, VSN Murty… - Climate dynamics, 2012 - Springer
In this paper, we evaluate several timely, daily air-sea heat flux products (NCEP, NCEP2,
ERA-Interim and OAFlux/ISCCP) against observations and present the newly developed …

[PDF][PDF] Understanding ENSO physics—A review

C Wang, J Picaut - Earth's Climate: The Ocean–Atmosphere …, 2004 - researchgate.net
The seasonal cycle can contribute to the irregularity and phase-locking of ENSO, and the
intraseasonal variability can be a source of both ENSO's variability and irregularity. Tropical …

El Niño–mean state–seasonal cycle interactions in a multi-model ensemble

E Guilyardi - Climate Dynamics, 2006 - Springer
Abstract The modelled El Niño–mean state–seasonal cycle interactions in 23 coupled ocean–
atmosphere GCMs, including the recent IPCC AR4 models, are assessed and compared to …

Evolution of the 2002/03 el nino

MJ McPhaden - Bulletin of the American Meteorological …, 2004 - journals.ametsoc.org
An El Niño of moderate intensity developed in the tropical Pacific in 2002/03. This event,
though not as strong as the 1997/98 El Niño, had significant impacts on patterns of weather …

Triggering of El Niño by westerly wind events in a coupled general circulation model

M Lengaigne, E Guilyardi, JP Boulanger, C Menkes… - Climate Dynamics, 2004 - Springer
Two ten-members ensemble experiments using a coupled ocean-atmosphere general
circulation model are performed to study the dynamical response to a strong westerly wind …