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Air-sea humidity effects on the generation of tropical Atlantic SST anomalies during the ENSO events

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Title: Air-sea humidity effects on the generation of tropical Atlantic SST anomalies during the ENSO events
Authors: Chikamoto, Yoshimitsu Browse this author
Tanimoto, Youichi Browse this author →KAKEN DB
Issue Date: 2006
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
Journal Title: Geophysical Research Letters
Volume: 33
Issue: L19702
Publisher DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027238
Abstract: After the mature stage of the ENSO events in the boreal winter, SST and latent heat flux anomalies over the tropical Atlantic during the following spring show large amplitude north of the equator but small one south of the equator. The linear decomposition analyses of the latent heat flux anomalies indicate that the contribution from wind speed anomaly shows an equatorial antisymmetric structure with same magnitude but opposite polarity between north and south of the equator, while the contribution from anomalous air-sea humidity difference counters to that from wind speed anomaly south of the equator. These results suggest an important role of anomalous air-sea humidity difference on forming latent heat flux anomaly and significantly modifies the conventional view of wind speed as the dominant effect in ENSO-induced tropical Atlantic SST changes.
Rights: An edited version of this paper was published by AGU; Copyright 2006, American Geophysical Union, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,VOL. 33, L19702
Relation: http://www.agu.org/homepage.html
Type: article (author version)
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/14756
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