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Title: Tropical Indian Ocean Mediates ENSO Influence Over Central Southwest Asia During the Wet Season

Journal Article · · Geophysical Research Letters

El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) modulates wet season (November–April) precipitation over Central Southwest Asia (CSWA), however, intraseasonal characteristics of its influence are largely unknown, which can be important for its subseasonal to seasonal hydroclimate predictability. Here we show that the ENSO-CSWA teleconnection varies intraseasonally and is a combination of direct and indirect positive influences. The direct influence is through a Rossby wave-like pattern in the tail months. The indirect influence is through an atmospheric dipole of diabatic heating anomalies in the tropical Indian Ocean (TIO) as a result of ENSO-forced response, which also generates a Rossby wave-like forcing and persists throughout the wet season. ENSO exerts its strongest influence when both direct and indirect modes are in phase, while the relationship breaks down when the two modes are out of phase. The atmospheric teleconnection through the atmospheric diabatic heating anomalies in the TIO is reproducible in numerical simulations.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; US Air Force
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725; DE‐AC05‐00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1664622
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1665993; OSTI ID: 1786848
Journal Information:
Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 47, Issue 18; ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher:
American Geophysical UnionCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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