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gfdl on-line bibliography > 2006 citations
Interactions between the Asian monsoon and the El Nińo/Southern Oscillation
| Lau, N-C., and B. Wang, 2006: Interactions between the Asian monsoon and the El Nińo/Southern Oscillation. In, The Asian Monsoon, Berlin: Praxis, 479-512. |
| Abstract: The other chapters in this book have devoted considerable attention to the significant role of the sea surface temperature (SST) conditions over the Pacific and Indian Oceans in climatological aspects as well as variability of the Asian monsoon. The El Nińo/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon is known to exert a strong influence on the SST patterns throughout the World's oceans. The nature of the interactions between ENSO and the atmospheric circulation over different parts of the Asian–Australian region is obviously of primary importance in understanding many facets of the monsoon system. Of particular interest is the response of the monsoon flows to local and remote SST changes that emerge during ENSO, as well as the impact of monsoon fluctuations on the evolution of ENSO episodes.#The principal goal of the present chapter is to offer a synopsis of the basic characteristics of the ENSO phenomenon, its relationships with monsoonal features in the south Asian and east Asian–western Pacific sectors in different stages of the ENSO cycle, physical mechanisms that contribute to covariability between ENSO and the monsoon system, the effects of monsoon anomalies on the oceanic temperature and circulation fields, and the implications of such feedbacks on the subsequent development of ENSO. This review of the linkages between ENSO and the Asian monsoon is based on the available observational records of the last half-century, as well as output from general circulation model (GCM) experiments that are designed to delineate pertinent aspects of atmosphere–ocean coupling. |