Three-ocean interactions and climate variability: a review and perspective
Institute of Oceanology · South China Sea Institute Of Oceanology
Abstract
Interactions among the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans through ocean–atmosphere coupling can initiate and/or modulate climate variability. The Pacific Ocean is home to ENSO which affects other oceans through atmospheric bridges and the oceanic Indonesian throughflow (ITF). A warm Indian Ocean can produce atmospheric Kelvin waves that propagate eastward and increase equatorial easterly wind anomalies in the western Pacific and thus cool eastern Pacific sea surface temperature (SST). A positive Indian Ocean dipole establishes a southwestward pressure gradient force in the ITF region which increases the ITF transport and decreases ocean heat content in the western Pacific and may cool eastern Pacific SST. The…
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1Topics & keywords
- Oceanography
- Teleconnection
- Climatology
- Pacific decadal oscillation
- North Atlantic Deep Water
- Tropical Atlantic
- Sea surface temperature
- Indian Ocean Dipole
- Life below water