Change in El Niño flavours over 1958-2008: implications for the long-term trend of the upwelling off Peru

dc.contributor.authorDewitte, Boris
dc.contributor.authorVazquez-Cuervo, J.
dc.contributor.authorGoubanova, Katerina
dc.contributor.authorIllig, Serena
dc.contributor.authorTakahashi, Ken
dc.contributor.authorCambon, G.
dc.contributor.authorPurca, S.
dc.contributor.authorCorrea, D.
dc.contributor.authorGutierrez, D.
dc.contributor.authorSifeddine, A.
dc.contributor.authorOrtlieb, L.
dc.coverage.spatialPerú
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-21T10:28:53Z
dc.date.available2018-09-21T10:28:53Z
dc.date.issued2012-11-15
dc.description.abstractThe tropical Pacific variability has experienced changes in its characteristics over the last decades. In particular, there is some evidence of an increased occurrence of El Niño events in the central Pacific (a.k.a. ‘Central Pacific El Niño’ (CP El Niño) or ‘El Niño Modoki’), in contrast with the cold tongue or Eastern Pacific (EP) El Niño which develops in the eastern Pacific. Here we show that the different flavours of El Niño imply a contrasted Equatorial Kelvin Wave (EKW) characteristic and that their rectification on the mean upwelling condition off Peru through oceanic teleconnection is changed when the CP El Niño frequency of occurrence increases. The Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) reanalysis product is first used to document the seasonal evolution of the EKW during CP and EP El Niño. It is shown that the strong positive asymmetry of ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) is mostly reflected into the EKW activity of the EP El Niño whereas during CP El Niño, the EKW is negatively skewed in the eastern Pacific. Along with slightly cooler conditions off Peru (shallow thermocline) during CP El Niño, this is favourable for the accumulation of cooler SST anomalies along the coast by the remotely forced coastal Kelvin wave. Such a process is observed in a high-resolution regional model of the Humboldt Current system using the SODA outputs as boundary conditions. In particular the model simulates a cooling trend of the SST off Peru although the wind stress forcing has no trend. The model is further used to document the vertical structure along the coast during the two types of El Niño. It is suggested that the increased occurrence of the CP El Niño may also lead to a reduction of mesoscale activity off Peru.es_ES
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dc.identifier.citationDewitte, B., Vazquez-Cuervo, J., Goubanova, K., Illig, S., Takahashi, K., Cambon, G., ... Ortlieb, L. (2012). Change in El Nino flavours over 1958–2008: implications for the long-term trend of the upwelling off Peru.==$Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 77-80$==(15), 143-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.04.011es_ES
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.04.011es_ES
dc.identifier.govdocindex-oti2018
dc.identifier.journalDeep Sea Research Part II: Tropical Studies in Oceanographyes_ES
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12816/3022
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherElsevieres_ES
dc.relation.ispartofurn:issn:0967-0645
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccesses_ES
dc.subjectEl Niño Modokies_ES
dc.subjectEquatorial Kelvin wavees_ES
dc.subjectClimate changees_ES
dc.subjectCoastal upwellinges_ES
dc.subjectPeru undercurrentes_ES
dc.subject.ocdehttp://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.05.09es_ES
dc.subject.ocdehttp://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.05.10es_ES
dc.subject.ocdehttp://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.05.11es_ES
dc.titleChange in El Niño flavours over 1958-2008: implications for the long-term trend of the upwelling off Perues_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_ES

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