scholarly journals Tropical western Pacific warm pool and maritime continent precipitation rates and their contrasting relationships with the Walker Circulation

2007 ◽  
Vol 112 (D6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine E. Dayem ◽  
David C. Noone ◽  
Peter Molnar
Keyword(s):  
Walker Circulation ◽  
Warm Pool ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Western Pacific Warm Pool ◽  
Maritime Continent ◽  
Tropical Western Pacific ◽  
Pacific Warm Pool ◽  
The Walker Circulation

scholarly journals Water vapor anomaly over the tropical western Pacific in El Niño winters from radiosonde and satellite observations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minkang Du ◽  
Kaiming Huang ◽  
Shaodong Zhang ◽  
Chunming Huang ◽  
Yun Gong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapor ◽  
El Niño ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Walker Circulation ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Monsoon Circulation ◽  
Circulation Anomaly ◽  
Tropical Western Pacific ◽  
Ep El Niño ◽  
The Walker Circulation

Abstract. Using radiosonde observations at five stations in the tropical western Pacific and reanalysis data for 15 years from 2005 to 2019, we report an extremely negative anomaly in atmospheric water vapor during the super El Niño winter of 2015/16, and compare the anomaly with that in the other three El Niño winters. Strong specific humidity anomaly is concentrated below 8 km of the troposphere with a peak at 2.5–3.5 km, and column integrated water vapor mass anomaly over the five radiosonde sites has a large negative correlation coefficient of −0.63 with oceanic Niño3.4 index, but with a lag of about 2–3 months. In general, the tropical circulation anomaly in the El Niño winter is characterized by divergence (convergence) in the lower troposphere over the tropical western (eastern) Pacific, thus the water vapor decreases over the tropical western Pacific as upward motion is suppressed. The variability of the Hadley circulation is quite small and has little influence on the observed water vapor anomaly. The anomaly of the Walker circulation makes a considerable contribution to the total anomaly in all the four El Niño winters, especially in the 2006/07 and 2015/16 eastern-Pacific (EP) El Niño events. The monsoon circulation shows a remarkable change from one to the other event, and its anomaly is large in the 2009/10 and 2018/19 central-Pacific (CP) El Niño winters and small in the two EP El Niño winters. The observed water vapor anomaly is caused mainly by the Walker circulation anomaly in the supper EP event of 2015/16 but by the monsoon circulation anomaly in the strong CP event of 2009/10. Owing to the anomalous decrease in upward transport of water vapor during the El Niño winter, less cloud amount and more outgoing longwave radiation over the five stations are clearly presented in satellite observation.

scholarly journals KETERKAITAN PERUBAHAN IKLIM PADA GLASIAL AKHIR - HOLOSEN TERHADAP TINGKAT KEANEKARAGAMAN FORAMINIFERA DI LAUT HALMAHERA

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fitria Ratna Pratiwi ◽  
Suwarno Hadisusanto ◽  
Luli Gustiantini ◽  
Nazar Nurdin ◽  
Mira Yosi
Keyword(s):  
Younger Dryas ◽  
Warm Pool ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Western Pacific Warm Pool ◽  
Pacific Warm Pool

Laut Halmahera terletak pada Western Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP), yaitu pusat konveksi panas di Samudera Pasifik Barat tropis. Laut ini merupakan salah satu jalur masuk Arlindo yang menghubungkan massa air Samudera Pasifik dengan Samudera Hindia. Sehingga area ini penting untuk rekonstruksi paleoklimat. Peristiwa perubahan glasial akhir-interglasial (Holosen) merupakan peristiwa di masa lalu yang sangat mempengaruhi kondisi Laut Halmahera. Salah satu proksi yang dapat digunakan untuk mencatat perubahan iklim di masa lalu adalah sisa-sisa makhluk hidup, termasuk foraminifera. Perubahan yang terjadi pada foraminifera dapat diamati dari tingkat  keanekaragaman, kemelimpahan, dominansi, dan keseragaman. Penelitian dilakukan dengan menggunakan sampel sedimen bor MD10-3339, yang diambil di Laut Halmahera (00o26,67’LS dan 128o50,33’BT) pada kedalaman 1.919 m, dalam survei MONOCIR 2 tahun 2010. Sampel yang digunakan pada rentang 20 cm hingga 1.930 cm dengan interval 60 cm pada tiap sampel, yang dianggap mewakili waktu terjadinya glasial-interglasial. 30 sampel kemudian diamati dan dilakukan analisis secara kuantitatif. Teridentifikasi 52 spesies yang terdiri dari 32 spesies foraminifera bentonik dan 21 spesies foraminifera planktonik. Nilai indeks keanekaragaman, nilai indeks keseragaman, dan indeks dominansi menunjukkan nilai yang fluktuatif sejak glasial-interglasial, dengan nilai rata-rata 1,66; 0,35; dan 0,3. Walaupun tidak menunjukkan pola glasial-interglasial, namun pada sekitar umur 12.519 BP, nilai indeks keanekaragaman dan nilai keseragaman menunjukkan nilai yang lebih rendah dibandingkan dengan nilai yang lain yaitu 1,102 dan 0,26. Sebaliknya, indeks dominansi mencapai nilai tertinggi yaitu 0,55.  Selain itu, persentase P. obliqueloculata pada umur ini menjadi sangat dominan yaitu 73,05%. Hal tersebut kemungkinan berkaitan dengan peristiwa Younger Dryas.

Role of Abnormally Enhanced MJO over the Western Pacific in the Formation and Subseasonal Predictability of the Record-Breaking Northeast Asian Heatwave in the Summer of 2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 3333-3349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pang-Chi Hsu ◽  
Yitian Qian ◽  
Yu Liu ◽  
Hiroyuki Murakami ◽  
Yingxia Gao
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
Wave Train ◽  
Northeast Asia ◽  
Warm Pool ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Western Pacific Warm Pool ◽  
Pacific Warm Pool ◽  
Northeast Asian ◽  
The Western Pacific

AbstractIn the summer of 2018, Northeast Asia experienced a heatwave event that broke the existing high-temperature records in several locations in Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and northeastern China. At the same time, an unusually strong Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) was observed to stay over the western Pacific warm pool. Based on reanalysis diagnosis, numerical experiments, and assessments of real-time forecast data from two subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) models, we discovered the importance of the western Pacific MJO in the generation of this heatwave event, as well as its predictability at the subseasonal time scale. During the prolonged extreme heat period (11 July–14 August), a high pressure anomaly with variability at the intraseasonal (30–90 days) time scale appeared over Northeast Asia, causing persistent adiabatic heating and clear skies in this region. As shown in the composites of MJO-related convection and circulation anomalies, the occurrence of this 30–90-day high anomaly over Northeast Asia was linked with an anomalous wave train induced by tropical heating associated with the western tropical Pacific MJO. The impact of the MJO on the heatwave was further confirmed by sensitivity experiments with a coupled GCM. As the western Pacific MJO-related components were removed by nudging prognostic variables over the tropics toward their annual cycle and longer time scales (>90 days) in the coupled GCM, the anomalous wave train along the East Asian coast disappeared and the surface air temperature in Northeast Asia lowered. The MJO over the western Pacific warm pool also influenced the predictability of the extratropical heatwave. Our assessments of two S2S models’ real-time forecasts suggest that the extremity of this Northeast Asian heatwave can be better predicted 1–4 weeks in advance if the enhancement of MJO convection over the western Pacific warm pool is predicted well.

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