Impact of Sea Surface Temperature on Westerlies over the Western Pacific Warm Pool: Case Study of an Event in 2001/02

• Miyama Toru

  Application Laboratory and Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

• Hasegawa Takuya

  Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

Abstract

A regional atmospheric model was employed to demonstrate that a strong westerly wind, which occurred around December 2001 prior to the 2002/03 El Niño event, was enhanced by sea surface temperature gradient along the equator in the western Pacific warm pool region. Furthermore, a regional oceanic model was employed to demonstrate that the enhanced westerly wind event substantially increased oceanic Kelvin wave response along the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Journal

• SOLA

  SOLA 10 (0), 5-9, 2014

  Meteorological Society of Japan

Keywords

• Atmospheric Science

Details

• CRID: 1390282680198274816
• NII Article ID: 130004940839
• DOI: 10.2151/sola.2014-002
• ISSN: 13496476
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/sola/10/0/10_2014-002/_pdf
• Text Lang: en
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