ENSO发生前与发展初期赤道西太平洋西风异常的爆发问题
ON THE WESTERLY WIND OUTBURSTS IN EQUATORIAL WESTERN PACIFIC DURING THE ONSET and DEVELOPMENT PHASES OF ENSO AND BEFORE
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摘要: 利用NCEP/NCAR再分析资料,通过对El Nino与La Nina发生前与发展初期低层风场的合成分析,发现在赤道中东太平洋增暖当年的春季与夏季,赤道西太平洋存在两次显著的西风局地(140°E~180)增强过程。其原因并不仅仅在于印度洋的西风异常东移,更在于南北半球的经向风在该地区强烈辐合,造成局地气压梯度增强,促进西风加强并向东爆发;同时由于地球自转效应的作用,来自北半球的东北风到达赤道附近后转西北风,南半球的东南风转西南风,直接加强了西风的强度。对比分析南北半球经向风的作用表明,南半球东南风的强度与位置更稳定,对赤道西风两次增幅过程的贡献更大。这支南半球的经向气流来自高纬极区,与中高纬度气压场异常有直接的关系。Abstract: By the aid of NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis data sets,the low level wind fields are explored during the onset and development phase of ENSO and before.Evidences show that westerly anomalies in the western equatorial Pacific (140°E~180) experience two remarkable enhancements in the spring and summer of the year when El Niño emerges.The enhancements of westerlies are not only due to the eastward propagation of the westerlies in equatorial Indian Ocean,butalso caused by the strong convergence of the meridional wind from two hemispheres,which leads to the regionaly intensified zonal pressure gradient so as to result in the reinforcement and bursts of westerly wind.On the other hand,as the influence of the Earth-self-rotation,the north-easterly (south-easterly) wind from northern (southern) hemisphere changes into north-westerly (south-westerly) wind gradualy in the near-equatorial zone,strengthening the westerly wind directly.Comparing the contributions of the meridioanl wind from both hemispheres to the enhancements of westerly anomalies, we find that south-easterly wind of southern hemispere,appearing to the east of Australia, is stronger in vigor and more stable,which originates from the southern pole area and is related with Southern Oscilation.