Frequent central Pacific La Niña events may accelerate Arctic warming since the 1980s

Jing Li; Lin Mu; Linhao Zhong

doi:10.1007/s13131-021/1843-x

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Jing Li, Lin Mu, Linhao Zhong. Frequent central Pacific La Niña events may accelerate Arctic warming since the 1980s[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2021, 40(11): 62-69. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021/1843-x

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Jing Li, Lin Mu, Linhao Zhong. Frequent central Pacific La Niña events may accelerate Arctic warming since the 1980s[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2021, 40(11): 62-69. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021/1843-x

Jing Li, Lin Mu, Linhao Zhong. Frequent central Pacific La Niña events may accelerate Arctic warming since the 1980s[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2021, 40(11): 62-69. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021/1843-x

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Frequent central Pacific La Niña events may accelerate Arctic warming since the 1980s

doi: 10.1007/s13131-021/1843-x

Jing Li^{1, 2},
Lin Mu^{1, 2, 3
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Linhao Zhong^{4
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College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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College of Marine Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China
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CAS Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China

Funds: The Shenzhen Fundamental Research Program under contract No. JCYJ20200109110220482; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No. U2006210; the Key Special Project for Introduced Talents Team of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) under contract No. GML2019ZD0604.

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Corresponding author: E-mail: mulin@szu.edu.cn; zlh@mail.iap.ac.cn
Received Date: 2021-02-26
Accepted Date: 2021-04-21

Available Online: 2021-07-12

Publish Date: 2021-11-30

Abstract

Abstract

Including significant warming trend, Arctic climate changes also exhibit strong interannual variations in various fields, which is suggested to be related to El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events. Previous studies have demonstrated the different impacts on the Arctic of central Pacific (CP) and eastern Pacific (EP) ENSO events, and suggested these impacts are largely of opposite sign for ENSO warm and cold phases. Our results illustrate asymmetrical changes for the cold and warm ENSO events, especially for the La Niña events. Compared to the past frequent basin-wide cooling La Niña events, since the 1980s the cooling center for the La Niña event has strengthened and moved westward along with the increasing frequency for the canonical and CP La Niña events. Contrary to the basin-wide cooling and canonical La Niña events, the frequent CP La Niña events induce significant warming from the Beaufort Sea to Greenland via the convection center moving northward over the western Pacific. Observation analysis and numerical experiments both suggest that the changes in La Niña type may also accelerate Arctic warming.
- ENSO diversity,
- La Niña type,
- the Arctic warming

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