Review on observational studies of western tropical Pacific Ocean circulation and climate

D Hu, F Wang, J Sprintall, L Wu, S Riser… - Journal of Oceanology …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Western Tropical Pacific (WTP) Ocean holds the largest area of warm water (>
28° C) in the world ocean referred to as the Western Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP), which …

A positive feedback onto ENSO due to tropical instability wave (TIW)‐induced chlorophyll effects in the Pacific

F Tian, RH Zhang, X Wang - Geophysical Research Letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical instability waves (TIWs) induce large physical and biological perturbations, which
have a feedback onto the tropical Pacific climate and ecosystem. However, the extent to …

Unusual anomaly pattern of the 2015/2016 extreme El Niño induced by the 2014 warm condition

W Zhong, W Cai, XT Zheng… - Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The warm center of the 2015/2016 extreme El Niño was located further to the west
compared to previous extreme events, causing vastly different social‐economic impacts …

Interannual variability of lower equatorial intermediate current response to ENSO in the Western Pacific

Q Ma, J Wang, F Wang, D Zhang… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The ocean currents of the tropical Pacific Ocean vary with El Niño‐Southern Oscillation
(ENSO) cycles. A mooring time series obtained during 2014–2018 in the western Pacific …

Variability of the Mindanao Current induced by El Niño events

Q Ren, Y Li, F Wang, J Duan, S Hu… - Journal of Physical …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Historical observations have documented prominent changes of the Mindanao Current (MC)
during El Niño events, yet a systematic understanding of how El Niño modulates the MC is …

Currents off the Papua New Guinea coast during and after the El Niño of 2015–2016

J Wu, L Zhang, F Wang, C Kaluwin… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Interannual variation of New Guinea Coastal Undercurrent (NGCUC) along the
Papua New Guinea (PNG) coast was investigated using mooring observations during 2015 …

Comparison of Madden-Julian oscillation in three super El Niño events

L Li, X Chen, C Li, X Li, M Yang - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This paper investigated the characteristics of Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) in three super
El Niño events (ie, 1982/83, 1997/98 and 2015/16 El Niño events) based on reanalysis data …

Distinctive MJO activity during the boreal winter of the 2015/16 Super El Niño in comparison with other Super El Niño events

X Lei, W Zhang, PC Hsu, C Liu - Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Many previous studies have demonstrated that the boreal winters of super El Niño events
are usually accompanied by severely suppressed Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) activity …

Observed Deep‐Reaching Signatures of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation in the Ocean Circulation of the Western Tropical Pacific

L Song, Y Li, C Liu, F Wang… - Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Prominent intraseasonal variability (ISV) of ocean currents was detected by two subsurface
moorings deployed at 140° E, 2° N, and 4.7° N during 2014–2018 and shown to be largely …

Anomalous upper-ocean circulation of the Western equatorial Pacific following El Niño events

Y Lyu, Y Li, J Wang, J Duan, X Tang… - Journal of Physical …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Mooring measurements at~ 140° E in the western equatorial Pacific Ocean documented
greatly intensified eastward subsurface currents, which largely represent the nascent …