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Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010georl..3702708m&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 37, Issue 2, CiteID L02708
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Oceanography: General: Climate And Interannual Variability (1616, 1635, 3305, 3309, 4513), Oceanography: General: Coastal Processes, Oceanography: Physical: Enso (4922)
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Southern-central Chile (35°-41°S) is characterized by strong seasonality of coastal upwelling. At these latitudes, El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) forces climatic changes mainly through atmospheric teleconnections. Here we show that ENSO also modulates the timing, i.e. onset and end, of the upwelling season. In order to study the ENSO related wind-driven upwelling changes, compositing analysis was applied to coastal winds and to other atmospheric fields. During El Niño (La Niña) austral spring conditions, delayed (earlier-normal) onset of the upwelling season is associated with a meridional dipole characterized by weaken (stronger) South Pacific subtropical anticyclone and blocking (cyclonic) systems in the Amundsen-Bellingshausen Seas. During austral fall season, similar meridional dipole pattern described for spring La Niña conditions is related to delayed end of the upwelling season. Accordingly, shorter (longer) duration and weaker (stronger) intensity of upwelling season occurs during El Niño (La Niña) events off southern-central Chile.
Gomez Fabian
Montecinos Aldo
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