Southern Hemisphere Summer Mesopause Responses to El Niño–Southern Oscillation
Southern Hemisphere Summer Mesopause Responses to El Niño–Southern Oscillation
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DOI:
10.1175/jcli-d-15-0816.1
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发表时间:
2016-08
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
Tao Li;N. Calvo;J. Yue;J. Russell;Anne K. Smith;M. Mlynczak;A. Chandran;X. Dou;A. Liu
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Tao Li;N. Calvo;J. Yue;J. Russell;Anne K. Smith;M. Mlynczak;A. Chandran;X. Dou;A. Liu
AbstractIn the Southern Hemisphere (SH) polar region, satellite observations reveal a significant upper-mesosphere cooling and a lower-thermosphere warming during warm ENSO events in December. An opposite pattern is observed in the tropical mesopause region. The observed upper-mesosphere cooling agrees with a climate model simulation. Analysis of the simulation suggests that enhanced planetary wave (PW) dissipation in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) high-latitude stratosphere during El Nino strengthens the Brewer–Dobson circulation and cools the equatorial stratosphere. This increases the magnitude of the SH stratosphere meridional temperature gradient and thus causes the anomalous stratospheric easterly zonal wind and early breakdown of the SH stratospheric polar vortex. The resulting perturbation to gravity wave (GW) filtering causes anomalous SH mesospheric eastward GW forcing and polar upwelling and cooling. In addition, constructive inference of ENSO and quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) could lead to st...