New Insights into Multiyear La Niña Dynamics from the Perspective of a Near-Annual Ocean Process

Author:

Liu Fangyu1,Zhang Wenjun1,Jin Fei-Fei2,Jiang Feng13,Boucharel Julien23,Hu Suqiong1

Affiliation:

1. a CIC-FEMD/ILCEC, Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of Ministry of Education (KLME), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

2. b Department of Atmospheric Sciences, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii

3. c University of Toulouse, LEGOS, IRD, Toulouse, France

Abstract

Abstract El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) exhibits highly asymmetric temporal evolutions between its warm and cold phases. While El Niño events usually terminate rapidly after their mature phase and show an already established transition into the cold phase by the following summer, many La Niña events tend to persist throughout the second year and even reintensify in the ensuing winter. While many mechanisms were proposed, no consensus has been reached yet and the essential physical processes responsible for the multiyear behavior of La Niña remain to be illustrated. Here, we show that a unique ocean physical process operates during multiyear La Niña events. It is characterized by rapid double reversals of zonal ocean current anomalies in the equatorial Pacific and exhibits a fairly regular near-annual periodicity. Mixed-layer heat budget analyses reveal comparable contributions of the thermocline and zonal advective feedbacks to the SST anomaly growth in the first year of multiyear La Niña events; however, the zonal advective feedback plays a dominant role in the reintensification of La Niña events. Furthermore, the unique ocean process is identified to be closely associated with the preconditioning heat content state in the central to eastern equatorial Pacific before the first year of La Niña, which has been shown in previous studies to play an active role in setting the stage for the future reintensification of La Niña. Despite systematic underestimation, the above oceanic process can be broadly reproduced by state-of-the-art climate models, providing a potential additional source of predictability for the multiyear La Niña events.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Graduate Research and Innovation Projects of Jiangsu Province

Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Publisher

American Meteorological Society

Subject

Atmospheric Science

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