An Extreme Oceanic & Atmospheric Event in the South Pacific & Western Antarctica Associated With the 2009-10 El Niño Tong Lee*, Carmen Böning, Will Hobbs,

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An Extreme Oceanic & Atmospheric Event in the South Pacific & Western Antarctica Associated With the El Niño Tong Lee*, Carmen Böning, Will Hobbs, Josh Willis, Daria Halkides, Ichiro Fukumori, Ed Armstrong, Akiko Hayashi, Tim Liu, Bill Patzert, Ou Wang NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Presentation material partially based on: Lee et al. (2010), Lee & McPhaden (2010), Boening et al. (2011), published, and Lee and Halkides (2011) in prep.

Outline Extreme oceanic & atmos. conditions in the S. Pac. & western Antarctica during El Nino revealed by satellite and in-situ data. Heat budget analysis for based on observations and ECCO ocean state estimation product. Vorticity balance analysis using ASCAT & GRACE data. Contrasting the effects of central-Pacific and eastern- Pacific El Nino.

A huge, persistent anticyclone in the South Pacific during El Niño ASCAT vector wind anomaly More persistent than blocking events typically associated with the Southern Annular Mode

Unprecedented strength of the anticyclone Wind stress curl anomaly from NCEP/DOE reanalysis II

SST Image credit: PO.DAAC Corresponding extreme anomalies in many variables (all can be explained by wind changes) SST (Reynolds’ 1°/4 GHRSST)Ocean Bottom Pressure (OBP) (GRACE) Nov. 2009

Anomalies of SST & atmos. pressure associated with the anticyclone Colors: SSTA Contours: 500-hPa geopotential height anomaly 5 std. dev. 4 std. dev. 1 std. dev. Lee et al. (2010)

Vertical structure of the warming in the South Pacific: confined to top 50 m (Austral spring-summer mixed-layer depth) Argo Lee et al. (2010)

Anomalous wind speed & direction associated with the anticyclone caused the oceanic warming: observational analysis suggest comparable roles of ocean & atmos. processes Weaker wind reduced evaporative heat loss Easterly anomaly of wind suppressed northward intrusion of cold waters Lee et al. (2010)

Mixed-layer depth (MLD) defined as (σ(z) = σ o kg∙m -3 ) Mixed-layer depth (MLD) defined as (σ(z) = σ o kg∙m -3 ) Calculate MLT budget integrated over MLD [ ] Calculate MLT budget integrated over MLD [ ] Surface Fluxes Entrainment- Detrainment (ML base motion) “Ocean Processes” Vertical Advection Vertical Mixing Net Tendency Subsurface Processes Mixed-layer temperature (MLT) balance Horizontal mixing (small) Horizontal advection

Analysis of mixed-layer heat budget based on ECCO- JPL ocean state estimation product Comparable roles of surface heat flux & ocean dynamics Comparable roles horizontal advection & vertical/subsurface processes

Detailed breakdown subsurface & horizontal processes Entrainment- detrainment dominates vertical processes Meridional advection dominates horizontal processes

Agreement indicates mass convergence is the primary cause for the SSH increase. OBP SSH Ocean Bottom Pressure (OBP) signal from GRACE) & sea surface height (SSH) signal from JASON-1 Boening, Lee, & Zlotnicki (2011)

6/12/2016 Overall: topographic effect important Late ’09 event: wind forcing re-enforce topographic effect, counteracted by friction. Re-enforcement of wind forcing and topographic effect caused the OBP anomaly as observed by GRACE Boening, Lee, & Zlotnicki (2011)

The extreme event in the South Pacific (and western Antarctica) was attributed to the El Nino SCP SSTA best correlated with Nino4 SSTA (up to a few months of lags). Nino4 SSTA for the El Nino is a record high. Nino4Nino3 SCP Lee & McPhaden (2010)

Effects of El Nino on Southern Ocean circulation: contrasting central- and eastern-Pacific El Nino Barotropic stream function anomaly in Nov. ‘09 (the strongest CP-El Nino) (ECCO-JPL) Barotropic stream function anomaly in Nov. ‘97 (the strongest EP-El Nino)

Record austral-summer warming off the western Antarctica Peninsula

Summary Satellite and in-situ data revealed extreme oceanic & atmos. conditions in the S. Pac. & western Antarctica during El Nino Huge, persistent anticyclone with unprecedented strength. Five standard-deviation, record warming in the ocean mixed layer; large signatures in SSH/OBP (altimeter/GRACE). Heat budget analysis suggests that anomalous wind speed and wind direction were the cause of the mixed-layer warming. Vorticity balance analysis indicates that re-enforcement of wind stress curl by topographic effect can explain the record high anomaly of OBP. These anomalies are very different from those associated with the El Nino -> warrant a systematic investigation of the effects of central-Pacific & eastern-Pacific El Nino.