Climate variability in central equatorial Africa: Influence from the Atlantic sector

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Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004georl..3123202t&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 31, Issue 23, CiteID L23202

Physics

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Hydrology: Hydroclimatology, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Climatology (1620), Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Ocean/Atmosphere Interactions (0312, 4504), Information Related To Geographic Region: Africa

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We document a strong teleconnection between Central Equatorial African (CEA) rainfall (and Congo River discharge) and the large-scale circulation over the North Atlantic, throughout the boreal winter/spring season. Positive rainfall anomalies over CEA (at interannual and multi-annual timescales) are related to anomalous westerly mid-tropospheric zonal winds over the CEA/Atlantic region. These anomalies appear to be part of a coherent structure of zonal wind anomalies extending to the polar regions of the North Atlantic, similar to that associated with the NAO pattern. Idealised model simulations suggest that at least over the tropical and subtropical latitudes of the Atlantic/African sector such a signal may be associated with SST forcing from the Tropical North Atlantic (TNA) region. We conclude that TNA SSTs may force these circulation anomalies over CEA at multi-annual timescales but at interannual timescales they may be relatively independent of TNA SSTs.

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