ENSO Diversity Simulated in a Revised Cane-Zebiak Model

Geng, Licheng; Jin, Fei-Fei

doi:10.3389/feart.2022.899323

ENSO Diversity Simulated in a Revised Cane-Zebiak Model

Journal Article · Mon Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Frontiers in Earth Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.899323· OSTI ID:1981070

Geng, Licheng ^[1]; Jin, Fei-Fei ^[2]

Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States); University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon features rich sea surface temperature (SST) spatial pattern variations dominated by the Central Pacific (CP) and Eastern Pacific (EP) patterns during its warm phase. Understanding such ENSO pattern diversity has been a subject under extensive research activity. To provide a framework for unveiling the fundamental dynamics of ENSO diversity, an intermediate coupled model based on the Cane-Zebiak-type framework, named RCZ, is established in this study. Compared with the original Cane-Zebiak model, RCZ consists of revised model formulation and well-tuned parameterization schemes. All model components are carefully validated against the observations via the standalone mode, in which the observed anomalous SST (wind stress) forcing is prescribed to drive the atmospheric (oceanic) component. The superiority of RCZ’s model components over those in the original Cane-Zebiak model is evidenced by their better performance in simulating the observations. Coupled simulation with RCZ satisfactorily reproduces aspects of the observed ENSO characteristics, including the spatial pattern, phase-locking, amplitude asymmetry, and, particularly, ENSO diversity/bi-modality. RCZ serves as a promising tool for studying dynamics of ENSO diversity as it resolves most of the relevant processes proposed in the literature, including atmospheric nonlinear convective heating, oceanic nonlinear dynamical heating, and the ENSO/westerly wind burst interaction.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0005110

OSTI ID:: 1981070

Journal Information:: Frontiers in Earth Science, Journal Name: Frontiers in Earth Science Vol. 10; ISSN 2296-6463

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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