Abstract
Most tropical cyclones (TCs) generated over the eastern North Pacific (ENP) do not make landfall. Consequently, TCs in this basin have received less attention, especially those that occur away from the mainland. Furthermore, there have been few studies of the climatic effects of ENP TCs. This study explores the feedback relationship between ENP TCs and the intensity of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), including El Niño and La Niña events, from the perspective of accumulated cyclone energy (ACE). Observational and modeling results indicate that the ENP ACE 3 months earlier can still affect the intensity of El Niño and La Niña events, although the SST persistence is main contributor. Thereinto, the impact of ENP TCs on El Niño appears to be approximately equal to that on La Niña. Moreover, this impact is independent of the persistence of the sea surface temperature (SST) in the Niño 3.4 region and the Madden–Julian Oscillation. Generally, the greater the ENP ACE, the stronger the El Niño, and the smaller the ENP ACE, the stronger the La Niña; this is especially the case for those TCs that develop over the July‒September period. In addition, results show that the ENP TCs modulate ENSO intensity by changing anomalous zonal wind at the low-level atmospheric layer. And the joint impacts of the low-level zonal wind anomalies on the Walker circulation and the east–west thermocline gradient lead to the time characteristics that ENP TCs lead ENSO intensity by about 3 months.
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TCs dataset is available online at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/. The daily SST data is available online at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/home. The daily OLR data is available online at https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.interp_OLR.html. The monthly wind dataset is available online at https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis.pressure.html. The monthly SST data is available online at https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.noaa.ersst.v5.html. Ocean variables are available online at http://apdrc.soest.hawaii.edu/las/v6/dataset?catitem=4867.
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This work is jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42192555, 42105014), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2021T140302, 2021M701652) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (201962009).
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This work is jointly supported by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grants 2017YFC1501601, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61827901, 42105014), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2021T140302, 2021M701652) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (201962009).
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Appendix I : Abbreviations occurred in the text or figures
Abbreviations | Illustrations | Related figures |
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ENSO | El Niño–Southern Oscillation | – |
SST | Sea surface temperature | |
TC | Tropical cyclone | |
ENP | Eastern North Pacific | |
ACE | Accumulated cyclone energy | |
MJO | Madden–Julian Oscillation | |
J-A-S | July, August and September | |
O-N-D | October, November and December | |
N3.4 | Niño 3.4 index | |
N3.40 | Preceding (three months earlier) Niño 3.4 index | |
N3.4_dN3.40 | Niño 3.4 index after removing the preceding Niño 3.4 index | Figure 2 |
ACE_dN3.40 | ENP ACE index after removing the preceding Niño 3.4 index | |
N3.4(N3.40) | Niño 3.4 indices associated with N3.40 | |
N3.40* | Preceding Niño 3.4 index after removing the preceding ENP ACE, i.e., ACE-independent Niño 3.4 index | |
N3.4(N3.40*) | Niño 3.4 indices associated with N3.40* | |
ACE0 | Preceding ENP ACE anomalies | |
N3.4(ACE0) | Niño 3.4 indices associated with ACE0 | |
ACE0* | Preceding ENP ACE anomalies after removing the preceding Niño 3.4 index, i.e., Niño 3.4 index-independent ACE | |
N3.4(ACE0*) | Niño 3.4 indices associated with ACE0* | |
ACE0 + N3.40 | Factor consists of the preceding ENP ACE and Niño 3.4 index | |
N3.4(ACE0 + N3.40) | Niño 3.4 index associated with ACE0 + N3.40., | |
ACE0* + N3.40 | Factor consists of the preceding ACE0* and Niño 3.4 index | |
N3.4(ACE0* + N3.40) | Niño 3.4 index associated with ACE0* + N3.40 | |
U | Regionally zonal wind anomalies (0°–15°N, 125°W–180°) | Figure 16 |
Walker | Walker circulation index | |
U(ACE) | Regionally zonal wind anomalies related to the ENP ACE | |
ACE_dWalker0 | ENP ACE index which the preceding Walker circulation index is removed | |
Walker_dWalker0 | Walker circulation index which the preceding Walker circulation index is removed | |
THC-E | Eastern thermocline (5°S–5°N, 90°–170°W) | Figure 18 |
THC-E(ACE) | Eastern thermocline related to the ENP ACE | |
THCG | East–west thermocline gradient index | |
ACE_dTHCG0 | ENP ACE which the preceding east–west thermocline gradient index is removed | |
THCG_dTHCG0 | East–west thermocline gradient which the preceding east–west thermocline gradient index is removed |
Appendix II: Details of experimental set-up
Firstly, because of the limitations of the current models, it’s still a great challenge to examine the effect of TC on ENSO directly using TC/ACE as the initial forcing (Hu et al. 2019; Wang et al. 2019b; Ren et al. 2020; Fang and Zheng 2021; Vidale et al. 2021). Secondly, previous studies (Wang et al. 2019b; Wang and Li 2022a, b, c) have shown that TCs can affect ENSO by modulating wind field. Thirdly, LDEO5 can simulate the response of SST to anomalous wind field, and forecast subsequent SST during ENSO events (Chen et al. 2004; Wang et al. 2019b; Gao et al. 2020). Hence, the experiments applied the surface horizontal wind anomalies related to the different impact factors (based on the simultaneous regression) as initial forcing.
Experiments | Details | Illustrations |
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Experiment I | Step 1, the surface horizontal wind anomalies related to Niño 3.4 index from 1970 to 2020, as an initial forcing, are added to simulate Niño 3.4 index; | |
Step 2, the discrepancy between the observed and simulated Niño 3.4 indices is corrected | Ensure a better simulation of LDEO5 on Niño 3.4 index | |
Step 3, the simulated Niño 3.4 index after correction are employed to predict Niño 3.4 index three months later in LDEO5 | The role of SST-persistence in the SST three months later | |
Step 4, Select the forecasting Niño 3.4 index during ENSO developing year | Obtain the Fig. 5a, g | |
Experiment II | Step 1, the surface horizontal wind anomalies related to Niño 3.4 index after removing the signal of simultaneous ENP ACE (i.e. ACE-independent Niño 3.4 index) from 1970 to 2020, as an initial forcing, are added to simulate Niño 3.4 index; | |
Step 2, the discrepancy between the observed and simulated Niño 3.4 indices is corrected using the correction coefficient obtained by the experiment I | Same correction coefficient as Experiment I can ensure obtained the relative contribution of SST persistence and SST persistence after removing the influence of ENP ACE | |
Step 3, the simulated Niño 3.4 index after correction are employed to predict Niño 3.4 index three months later in LDEO5 | ||
Step 4, Select the forecasting Niño 3.4 index during ENSO developing year | Obtain the Fig. 5b, h | |
Experiment III | Step 1, the surface horizontal wind anomalies related to the ENP ACE from 1970 to 2020, as an initial forcing, are added to simulate Niño 3.4 index; | |
Step 2, the discrepancy between the observed and simulated Niño 3.4 indices is corrected using the correction coefficient obtained by the experiment I | Same correction coefficient as Experiment I can ensure obtained the relative contribution of ACE and the aforementioned factors | |
Step 3, the simulated Niño 3.4 index after correction are employed to predict Niño 3.4 index three months later in LDEO5 | ||
Step 4, Select the forecasting Niño 3.4 index during ENSO developing year | Obtain the Fig. 5c, i | |
Experiment IV | Step 1, the surface horizontal wind anomalies related to the ENP ACE after removing the signal of simultaneous Niño 3.4 index (Niño 3.4 index-independent ACE) from 1970 to 2020, as an initial forcing, are added to simulate Niño 3.4 index; | |
Step 2, the discrepancy between the observed and simulated Niño 3.4 indices is corrected using the correction coefficient obtained by the experiment I | Same correction coefficient as Experiment I can ensure obtained the relative contribution of ACE after removing the signal of simultaneous Niño 3.4 SST and the aforementioned factors | |
Step 3, the simulated Niño 3.4 index after correction are employed to predict Niño 3.4 index three months later in LDEO5 | ||
Step 4, Select the forecasting Niño 3.4 index during ENSO developing year | Obtain the Fig. 5d, j | |
Experiment V | Step 1, the surface horizontal wind anomalies related to the Niño 3.4 index and ENP ACE from 1970 to 2020, as an initial forcing, are added to simulate Niño 3.4 index; | |
Step 2, the discrepancy between the observed and simulated Niño 3.4 indices is corrected using the correction coefficient obtained by the experiment I | Same correction coefficient as Experiment I can ensure obtained the relative contribution of joint factor (Niño 3.4 index and ENP ACE) and the aforementioned factors | |
Step 3, the simulated Niño 3.4 index after correction are employed to predict Niño 3.4 index three months later in LDEO5 | ||
Step 4, Select the forecasting Niño 3.4 index during ENSO developing year | Obtain the Fig. 5e, k | |
Experiment VI | Step 1, the surface horizontal wind anomalies related to ACE-independent Niño 3.4 index and ENP ACE from 1970 to 2020, as an initial forcing, are added to simulate Niño 3.4 index; | |
Step 2, the discrepancy between the observed and simulated Niño 3.4 indices is corrected using the correction coefficient obtained by the experiment I | Same correction coefficient as Experiment I can ensure obtained the relative contribution of joint factor (ACE-independent Niño 3.4 index and ENP ACE) and the aforementioned factors | |
Step 3, the simulated Niño 3.4 index after correction are employed to predict Niño 3.4 index three months later in LDEO5 | ||
Step 4, Select the forecasting Niño 3.4 index during ENSO developing year | Obtain the Fig. 5f, l | |
Experiments VII and VIII are similar to VI, but for the joint factors consist of ACE and Niño 3.4 index-independent ACE, and ACE-independent Niño 3.4 index and Niño 3.4 index-independent ACE, respectively |
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Wang, Q., Tan, ZM. Impact of tropical cyclones over the eastern North Pacific on El Niño–Southern Oscillation intensity. Clim Dyn 61, 3103–3126 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06723-9
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