Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001georl..28..571g&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 28, Issue 4, p. 571-574
Physics
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Global Change: Climate Dynamics, Oceanography: General: Climate And Interannual Variability, Oceanography: Physical: Air/Sea Interactions, Oceanography: Physical: El Nino
Scientific paper
The Indian summer monsoon (ISM) could influence the El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) only if it could induce significant surface wind anomalies in the active regions of central and eastern equatorial Pacific. Using 50-year NCEP reanalysis, it is shown that observed surface winds in the central and eastern Pacific associated `purely' with ISM and unrelated to ENSO are very weak (~0.5 m.s-1). Strong surface winds in the central and eastern Pacific following a `strong' or `weak' ISM, noted in some earlier composite analyses, are related not to ISM but to the concurrent sea surface temperature (SST) forcing associated with the ENSO. A long run of an atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) without inter-annual SST forcing also show that a `pure' ISM induces only very weak surface winds in the equatorial central and eastern Pacific. Thus, we conclude that the ISM by itself is unlikely to influence the ENSO in a significant way.
Goswami B. N.
Jayavelu V.
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