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Article Dans Une Revue Geophysical Research Letters Année : 2023

The Impacts of a Weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation on ENSO in a Warmer Climate

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This study quantifies the impacts of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) on the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) under anthropogenic warming by comparing climate change model simulations with declining and fixed strengths of the overturning. After the 1980s, a weakened AMOC is shown to reduce the strength of the annual cycle of sea surface temperature (SST) in the eastern equatorial Pacific and induce anomalous cross-equatorial northerly winds there, which strengthens ENSO variability by about 11%. An analysis of the Bjerknes stability index reveals that this intensification of ENSO results mainly from enhanced Ekman upwelling feedback due to amplified atmospheric wind response to SST anomalies and oceanic upwelling response to equatorial wind stress anomalies. The weakened AMOC also promotes the occurrence of Central Pacific El Niño events and reduces ENSO skewness. These AMOC impacts on ENSO magnitude and complexity throughout the twenty-first century are however smaller than ENSO variations expected from internal climate variability.

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insu-04139560 , version 1 (24-06-2023)

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Wei Liu, David Duarte Cavalcante Pinto, Alexey V. Fedorov, Jiang Zhu. The Impacts of a Weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation on ENSO in a Warmer Climate. Geophysical Research Letters, 2023, 50, ⟨10.1029/2023GL103025⟩. ⟨insu-04139560⟩
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