Initialized decadal prediction for transition to positive phase of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation
Abstract
The negative phase of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO), a dominant mode of multi-decadal variability of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the Pacific, contributed to the reduced rate of global surface temperature warming in the early 2000s. Here, a proposed mechanism for IPO multidecadal variability indicates that the presence of decadal timescale upper ocean heat content in the off-equatorial western tropical Pacific can provide conditions for an interannual El Nino/Southern Oscillation event to trigger a transition of tropical Pacific SSTs to the opposite IPO phase. Here we show that a decadal prediction initialized in 2013 simulates predicted Nino3.4 SSTs that have qualitatively tracked the observations through 2015. The year three to seven average prediction (2015-2019) from the 2013 initial state shows a transition to the positive phase of the IPO from the previous negative phase and a resumption of larger rates of global warming over the 2013-2022 period consistent with a positive IPO phase.
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- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); USDOE Office of Science (SC) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC); USDOE Office of Science (SC) Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1280976
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FC02-97ER62402; AC02-05CH11231; AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 58 GEOSCIENCES; ocean recharge mechanism; warming hiatus; atmospheric moisture; climate variability; early-2000s hiatus; mid-1970s shift; heat-content; model; wind; intensification
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Meehl, Gerald A., Hu, Aixue, and Teng, Haiyan. Initialized decadal prediction for transition to positive phase of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms11718.
Meehl, Gerald A., Hu, Aixue, & Teng, Haiyan. Initialized decadal prediction for transition to positive phase of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11718
Meehl, Gerald A., Hu, Aixue, and Teng, Haiyan. Thu .
"Initialized decadal prediction for transition to positive phase of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11718. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1280976.
@article{osti_1280976,
title = {Initialized decadal prediction for transition to positive phase of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation},
author = {Meehl, Gerald A. and Hu, Aixue and Teng, Haiyan},
abstractNote = {The negative phase of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO), a dominant mode of multi-decadal variability of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the Pacific, contributed to the reduced rate of global surface temperature warming in the early 2000s. Here, a proposed mechanism for IPO multidecadal variability indicates that the presence of decadal timescale upper ocean heat content in the off-equatorial western tropical Pacific can provide conditions for an interannual El Nino/Southern Oscillation event to trigger a transition of tropical Pacific SSTs to the opposite IPO phase. Here we show that a decadal prediction initialized in 2013 simulates predicted Nino3.4 SSTs that have qualitatively tracked the observations through 2015. The year three to seven average prediction (2015-2019) from the 2013 initial state shows a transition to the positive phase of the IPO from the previous negative phase and a resumption of larger rates of global warming over the 2013-2022 period consistent with a positive IPO phase.},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms11718},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = ,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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