Similarities between optimal precursors for ENSO events and optimally growing initial errors in El Nio predictions

doi:10.1007/s00704-013-0909-x

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	Similarities between optimal precursors for ENSO events and optimally growing initial errors in El Nio predictions
	Mu, Mu 1; Yu, Yanshan 1; Xu, Hui 2; Gong, Tingting 1; Gong, TT (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Oceanol, Key Lab Ocean Circulat & Wave, Qingdao 266071, Peoples R China.
	2014-02-01
发表期刊	THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY
卷号	115 期号:3-4 页码:461-469
文章类型	Article
摘要	With the Zebiak-Cane model, the relationship between the optimal precursors (OPR) for triggering the El Nio/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events and the optimally growing initial errors (OGE) to the uncertainty in El Nio predictions is investigated using an approach based on the conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation. The computed OPR for El Nio events possesses sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) dipole over the equatorial central and eastern Pacific, plus positive thermocline depth anomalies in the entire equatorial Pacific. Based on the El Nio events triggered by the obtained OPRs, the OGE which cause the largest prediction errors are computed. It is found that the OPR and OGE share great similarities in terms of localization and spatial structure of the SSTA dipole pattern over the central and eastern Pacific and the relatively uniform thermocline depth anomalies in the equatorial Pacific. The resemblances are possibly caused by the same mechanism of the Bjerknes positive feedback. It implies that if additional observation instruments are deployed to the targeted observations with limited coverage, they should preferentially be deployed in the equatorial central and eastern Pacific, which has been determined as the sensitive area for ENSO prediction, to better detect the early signals for ENSO events and reduce the initial errors so as to improve the forecast skill.
学科领域	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
DOI	10.1007/s00704-013-0909-x
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000330829300008
引用统计	被引频次：38[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.qdio.ac.cn/handle/337002/23968
专题	海洋环流与波动重点实验室
通讯作者	Gong, TT (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Oceanol, Key Lab Ocean Circulat & Wave, Qingdao 266071, Peoples R China.
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Oceanol, Key Lab Ocean Circulat & Wave, Qingdao 266071, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Atmospher Phys, LASG, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
第一作者单位	中国科学院海洋研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mu, Mu,Yu, Yanshan,Xu, Hui,et al. Similarities between optimal precursors for ENSO events and optimally growing initial errors in El Nio predictions[J]. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY,2014,115(3-4):461-469.
APA	Mu, Mu,Yu, Yanshan,Xu, Hui,Gong, Tingting,&Gong, TT .(2014).Similarities between optimal precursors for ENSO events and optimally growing initial errors in El Nio predictions.THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY,115(3-4),461-469.
MLA	Mu, Mu,et al."Similarities between optimal precursors for ENSO events and optimally growing initial errors in El Nio predictions".THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY 115.3-4(2014):461-469.

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