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The Teleconnection of El Niño Southern Oscillation to the Stratosphere

Reviews of geophysics (1985), 2019-03, Vol.57 (1), p.5-47 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2018. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. ;2019. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. ;ISSN: 8755-1209 ;EISSN: 1944-9208 ;DOI: 10.1029/2018RG000596

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  • Title:
    The Teleconnection of El Niño Southern Oscillation to the Stratosphere
  • Author: Domeisen, Daniela I.V. ; Garfinkel, Chaim I. ; Butler, Amy H.
  • Subjects: Anomalies ; Atmospheric circulation ; Atmospheric models ; Circulation ; Climate change ; Climate variability ; Composition ; Connecting ; Cooling ; Earth ; Earth surface ; El Nino ; El Nino events ; El Nino phenomena ; El Nino Southern Oscillation ; El Nino-Southern Oscillation event ; Environmental impact ; Hemispheres ; La Nina ; La Nina events ; Lower stratosphere ; Nonlinear systems ; Nonlinearity ; Ocean circulation ; Ocean circulation anomalies ; Ocean currents ; Polar environments ; Polar regions ; Polar vortex ; Southern Oscillation ; Stratosphere ; Stratospheric circulation ; Stratospheric polar vortexes ; Stratospheric vortices ; Stratospheric warming ; teleconnection ; Teleconnections ; Tropical circulation ; Tropical climate ; Tropical environments ; Troposphere ; Variability ; Vortices ; Wave propagation ; Winds
  • Is Part Of: Reviews of geophysics (1985), 2019-03, Vol.57 (1), p.5-47
  • Description: El Niño and La Niña events in the tropical Pacific have significant and disrupting impacts on the global atmospheric and oceanic circulation. El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) impacts also extend above the troposphere, affecting the strength and variability of the stratospheric polar vortex in the high latitudes of both hemispheres, as well as the composition and circulation of the tropical stratosphere. El Niño events are associated with a warming and weakening of the polar vortex in the polar stratosphere of both hemispheres, while a cooling can be observed in the tropical lower stratosphere. These impacts are linked by a strengthened Brewer‐Dobson circulation. Anomalous upward wave propagation is observed in the extratropics of both hemispheres. For La Niña, these anomalies are often opposite. The stratosphere in turn affects surface weather and climate over large areas of the globe. Since these surface impacts are long‐lived, the changes in the stratosphere can lead to improved surface predictions on time scales of weeks to months. Over the past decade, our understanding of the mechanisms through which ENSO can drive impacts remote from the tropical Pacific has improved. This study reviews the possible mechanisms connecting ENSO to the stratosphere in the tropics and the extratropics of both hemispheres while also considering open questions, including nonlinearities in the teleconnections, the role of ENSO diversity, and the impacts of climate change and variability. Plain Language Summary El Niño and La Niña events, the irregular warming and cooling of the tropical Pacific that occurs every couple of years, have disrupting impacts spanning the entire world. These remote impacts, so‐called “teleconnections”, also reach the stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere starting at around 10 km above the Earth's surface. El Niño leads to a warming of the stratosphere in both hemispheres, while the lower tropical stratosphere cools. These signatures are linked by a strengthened stratospheric circulation from the tropics to the polar regions. El Niño also leads to more frequent breakdowns of the stratospheric polar vortex, a band of strong eastward winds in the polar stratosphere. For La Niña, these effects tend to be opposite, though they are not always robust, suggesting nonlinear or nonstationary effects, long‐term variability, and trends in the teleconnections. The observational data record is not yet long enough to make conclusions with certainty, and models that try to reproduce the teleconnections indicate that teleconnections might be more linear than the limited number of observations indicate. Further research will be needed to separate the El Niño and La Niña teleconnections from other effects and to determine to what extent nonlinearity and nonstationarity are indeed present. Key Points ENSO has a detectable impact on the composition and circulation of the stratosphere in the tropics and extratropics The changes in stratospheric variability due to ENSO have implications for improving surface prediction Recent advances in modeling have helped to put the response to the small sample of observed ENSO events in context
  • Publisher: Washington: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 8755-1209
    EISSN: 1944-9208
    DOI: 10.1029/2018RG000596
  • Source: Wiley Blackwell AGU Digital Library
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