scholarly journals Pacific warm pool subsurface heat sequestration modulated Walker circulation and ENSO activity during the Holocene

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (42) ◽  
pp. eabc0402
Author(s):  
Haowen Dang ◽  
Zhimin Jian ◽  
Yue Wang ◽  
Mahyar Mohtadi ◽  
Yair Rosenthal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
Heat Content ◽  
Walker Circulation ◽  
Warm Pool ◽  
Middle Holocene ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pacific Warm Pool ◽  
Temperature Records ◽  
Insolation Maximum ◽  
Winter Insolation

Dynamics driving the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) over longer-than-interannual time scales are poorly understood. Here, we compile thermocline temperature records of the Indo-Pacific warm pool over the past 25,000 years, which reveal a major warming in the Early Holocene and a secondary warming in the Middle Holocene. We suggest that the first thermocline warming corresponds to heat transport of southern Pacific shallow overturning circulation driven by June (austral winter) insolation maximum. The second thermocline warming follows equatorial September insolation maximum, which may have caused a steeper west-east upper-ocean thermal gradient and an intensified Walker circulation in the equatorial Pacific. We propose that the warm pool thermocline warming ultimately reduced the interannual ENSO activity in the Early to Middle Holocene. Thus, a substantially increased oceanic heat content of the warm pool, acting as a negative feedback for ENSO in the past, may play its role in the ongoing global warming.

scholarly journals Effect of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool on Lower-Stratospheric Water Vapor and Comparison with the Effect of ENSO

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 929-943 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Xie ◽  
Xin Zhou ◽  
Jianping Li ◽  
Quanliang Chen ◽  
Jiankai Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapor ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
Deep Convection ◽  
Warm Pool ◽  
Latent Heat Release ◽  
Stratospheric Water Vapor ◽  
Asymmetric Effects ◽  
Pacific Warm Pool ◽  
Tropopause Temperature

Abstract Time-slice experiments with the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model, version 4 (WACCM4), and composite analysis with satellite observations are used to demonstrate that the Indo-Pacific warm pool (IPWP) can significantly affect lower-stratospheric water vapor. It is found that a warmer IPWP significantly dries the stratospheric water vapor by causing a broad cooling of the tropopause, and vice versa for a colder IPWP. Such imprints in tropopause temperature are driven by a combination of variations in the Brewer–Dobson circulation in the stratosphere and deep convection in the troposphere. Changes in deep convection associated with El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) reportedly have a small zonal mean effect on lower-stratospheric water vapor for strong zonally asymmetric effects on tropopause temperature. In contrast, IPWP events have zonally uniform imprints on tropopause temperature. This is because equatorial planetary waves forced by latent heat release from deep convection project strongly onto ENSO but weakly onto IPWP events.

scholarly journals Human-caused Indo-Pacific warm pool expansion

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. e1501719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan Weller ◽  
Seung-Ki Min ◽  
Wenju Cai ◽  
Francis W. Zwiers ◽  
Yeon-Hee Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Model ◽  
Hydrological Cycle ◽  
Heat Content ◽  
Warm Pool ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Warm Pool ◽  
Basin Scale ◽  
Climate Model Simulations

The Indo-Pacific warm pool (IPWP) has warmed and grown substantially during the past century. The IPWP is Earth’s largest region of warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs), has the highest rainfall, and is fundamental to global atmospheric circulation and hydrological cycle. The region has also experienced the world’s highest rates of sea-level rise in recent decades, indicating large increases in ocean heat content and leading to substantial impacts on small island states in the region. Previous studies have considered mechanisms for the basin-scale ocean warming, but not the causes of the observed IPWP expansion, where expansion in the Indian Ocean has far exceeded that in the Pacific Ocean. We identify human and natural contributions to the observed IPWP changes since the 1950s by comparing observations with climate model simulations using an optimal fingerprinting technique. Greenhouse gas forcing is found to be the dominant cause of the observed increases in IPWP intensity and size, whereas natural fluctuations associated with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation have played a smaller yet significant role. Further, we show that the shape and impact of human-induced IPWP growth could be asymmetric between the Indian and Pacific basins, the causes of which remain uncertain. Human-induced changes in the IPWP have important implications for understanding and projecting related changes in monsoonal rainfall, and frequency or intensity of tropical storms, which have profound socioeconomic consequences.

scholarly journals La Niña-driven flooding in the Indo-Pacific warm pool during the past millennium

2019 ◽  
Vol 225 ◽  
pp. 106020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica R. Rodysill ◽  
James M. Russell ◽  
Mathias Vuille ◽  
Sylvia Dee ◽  
Brent Lunghino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Warm Pool ◽  
La Niña ◽  
The Past ◽  
La Nina ◽  
Pacific Warm Pool ◽  
Past Millennium

scholarly journals Impact of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool on the Hadley, Walker, and Monsoon Circulations

Atmosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1030
Author(s):  
Hye-Ryeom Kim ◽  
Kyung-Ja Ha ◽  
Suyeon Moon ◽  
Hyoeun Oh ◽  
Sahil Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Dominant Role ◽  
Hadley Circulation ◽  
Walker Circulation ◽  
Warming Trend ◽  
Warm Pool ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Natural Variability ◽  
Natural Mode ◽  
Monsoon Circulation ◽  
Pacific Warm Pool

The Indo-Pacific warm pool (IPWP) is enclosed by a 28 °C isotherm and plays a vital role in controlling atmospheric circulations. However, the effects of changes in regional warm pool sea surface temperatures (SSTs) remain unexplored. We divided the IPWP into the Indian and Pacific sectors and distinguished their responses to natural variability and global warming. Furthermore, we examined the impacts of the interannual variability (IAV) in warm pool SST on the tropical Hadley, Walker, and monsoon circulations. The Hadley circulation was affected by warm pool SST warming, i.e., warmer SSTs over the warm pool strengthened the upward branch of Hadley circulation, whereas the downward branch was respectively weakened and strengthened in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Walker circulation was strengthened (weakened) in the warming (natural) mode. Consequently, the Walker circulation is weakened since the natural variability of warm pool SST plays a more dominant role rather than the warming trend of SSTs over the warm pool. Furthermore, our analysis displays that warm pool warming has little impact on the monsoon circulation. Our findings highlight the different roles of the IAV of warm pool regions in each tropical circulation as part of the warming trend and natural variability.

scholarly journals Hydroclimate of the western Indo-Pacific Warm Pool during the past 24,000 years

2014 ◽  
Vol 111 (26) ◽  
pp. 9402-9406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva M. Niedermeyer ◽  
Alex L. Sessions ◽  
Sarah J. Feakins ◽  
Mahyar Mohtadi
Keyword(s):  
Warm Pool ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pacific Warm Pool

scholarly journals Precipitation variability within the West Pacific Warm Pool over the past 120 ka: Evidence from the Davao Gulf, southern Philippines

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 1094-1110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Fraser ◽  
Wolfgang Kuhnt ◽  
Ann Holbourn ◽  
Timothé Bolliet ◽  
Nils Andersen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Warm Pool ◽  
Precipitation Variability ◽  
The West ◽  
West Pacific ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pacific Warm Pool

scholarly journals The influence of radiation flux in Northwest Pacific on the Western Pacific warm pools and typhoons over the past 170 years

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chai Boyu ◽  
Feng Xu ◽  
Jianjun Xu ◽  
Han Li-guo ◽  
CHEN Si-qi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Flux ◽  
Longwave Radiation ◽  
Warm Pool ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Shortwave Radiation ◽  
Northwest Pacific ◽  
Western Pacific Warm Pool ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pacific Warm Pool ◽  
The Western Pacific

Abstract Based on various statistical methods and empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis, this study analyzes the correlation of radiation flux of Northwest Pacific in the 100 years scale with the western Pacific warm pool and typhoon development. The key results are as follows. First, the surface downwelling longwave radiation (SDLR) received by key areas in Northwest Pacific significantly increased over the past 170 years. The surface downwelling shortwave radiation (SDSR) decreased, and TOA (Top of Atmosphere) incident shortwave radiation (TISR) slightly fluctuated and increased in the 11a (11 years) period. Second, there was the strongest correlation between the Western Pacific warm pool and SDLR, and both increased continuously. Third, since 1945, there has been a tendency of increasing after decreasing in the annual frequency and the share of severe typhoons, and the formation area distribution of typhoons has turned more even. Taking 1998 as a cut-off point, before 1998, there was no obvious correlation between the strong typhoon frequency and SDLR. However, such correction became stronger after 1998. They were affected by the changes of SDLR, SDSR, TISR, vapor, vorticity, vertical velocity, SST and h100 . Forth, the SDLR and TISR are major factors influencing the Western Pacific warm pool, typhoon motion and other varieties. While SDLR mainly increases in the tropical areas, TISR tends to fluctuate and increase slightly. Their changes are consistent with the change general characteristics of strengthening of typhoon.

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