Normal Conditions. The Walker Circulation El Niño Conditions.

Slides:



Advertisements
Similar presentations
El Niño/La Niña.
Advertisements

Essentials of Oceanography
El Nino. El Nino – Typical surface ocean circulation.
Assessment of CFSv2 hindcast (seasonal mean) CPC/NCEP/NOAA Jan 2011.
El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Ocean-atmosphere interactions.
Mean annual SST. EQ WestEast Equatorial Divergence.
1 Surface Circulation Pathways Generally, warm currents move poleward and cool currents move equatorward.
NATS Lecture 17 Air Masses. Supplemental References for Today’s Lecture Lutgens, F. K. and E. J. Tarbuck, 2001: The Atmosphere, An Introduction.
Oceans. Vertical ocean temperature profile Plimsoll line.
El Nino – Southern Oscillation - Southern Oscillation (atmosphere) - El Nino (ocean) - change in equatorial Pacific circulation - produces global climate.
Today – 2/28 Weather report More climate Earthquakes.
1 Trade Winds in Equatorial Pacific. 2 ITCZ Location July January ITCZ.
El Nino. El nino conditions Normal El nino – strong counter-current.
Chapter 7 Ocean Circulation: El Niño
Lesson 11: El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Physical Oceanography
What Are the El Nino and La Nina?
Remember “normal” ocean circulation? El Nino? (warm) Trade winds weaken Thermocline drops Upwelling is cut off SST rises in E.Pacific High & Low pressure.
Extreme Events and Climate Variability. Issues: Scientists are telling us that global warming means more extreme weather. Every year we seem to experience.
SIO 210: ENSO conclusion Dec. 2, 2004 Interannual variability (end of this lecture + next) –Tropical Pacific: El Nino/Southern Oscillation –Southern Ocean.
Three cases: (1) La Nina event in 1989 (2) A strong El Nino in 1998 (3) A moderate El Nino in 1987 Three fields: (a) Surface temperatures and anomalies.
El Niño outlook Eric Boldt Warning Coordination Meteorologist
The La Niña Influence on Central Alabama Rainfall Patterns.
Ocean Circulation: El Niño
Water Year Outlook. Long Range Weather Forecast Use a combination of long term predictors –Phase of Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) –Phase of Atlantic.
Building Community Resilience in the Face of Increased Vulnerability to Extreme Weather & Water Events Andy Bryant National Weather Service Portland, OR.
The South American Monsoon System: Recent Evolution and Current Status Update prepared by Climate Prediction Center / NCEP 1 October 2012 For more information,
“Effects of Pacific Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies on the Climate of Southern South Carolina and Northern Coastal Georgia ” Whitney Albright Joseph.
The South American Monsoon System: Recent Evolution and Current Status Update prepared by Climate Prediction Center / NCEP 30 December 2013 For more information,
Coastal Processes and El Nino. El Nino  Normal: Trade winds blow west Wind piles up warm water in W. Pacific ○ Sea surface and sea surface temperature.
Temporal and Spatial Variation of air-sea CO 2 Fluxes in the West Coast of Baja California, Mexico J. Martín Hernández-Ayón 1,Ruben Lara-Lara 2, Francisco.
Southern Oscillation- Atmospheric component of ocean's El Niño. Oscillation in the distribution of high and low pressure systems across the equatorial.
Climate Change El-Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO)Phenomena.
The South American Monsoon System: Recent Evolution and Current Status Update prepared by Climate Prediction Center / NCEP 9 February 2015 For more information,
NATS Lecture 15 Atmo-Ocean Interactions El Niño-Southern Oscillation.
El Niňo. El Nińo: A significant increase in sea surface temperature over the eastern and central equatorial Pacific that occurs at irregular intervals,
El Nino and California Winter Weather. Talk Overview Antecedent Conditions Current El Nino Status Expectations for next 4 months.
Much of the work that follows is straight from (or slightly modified) notes kindly made available by Jenny Pollock NCG and or spk (?)…. Nice to have a.
1 What happened in 1982 El Nino? Mehmet ILICAK RSMAS, University of Miami 2005.
Ocean Circulation: El Niño El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) El Niño (Spanish for “the Child” in reference to baby Jesus) = warm surface current in.
Lecture 9: Air-Sea Interactions EarthsClimate_Web_Chapter.pdfEarthsClimate_Web_Chapter.pdf, p ; Ch. 16, p ; Ch. 17, p
Winter Outlook for the Pacific Northwest: Winter 06/07 14 November 2006 Kirby Cook. NOAA/National Weather Service Acknowledgement: Climate Prediction Center.
Oceans and Climate IB Geography. Distance from the sea and Weather Due to the differing specific heat capacities of land and water, this can affect local.
Oceans & El Nino Ocean-atmosphere coupling matters.
The South American Monsoon System: Recent Evolution and Current Status Update prepared by Climate Prediction Center / NCEP 18 November 2012 For more information,
Climates can change suddenly or slowly.  ICE AGE: Period in which huge sheets of ice spread out beyond the polar regions.  El NINO: A disturbance of.
ENSO El Niño—Southern Oscillation  El Niño (Spanish for “the Child” in reference to baby Jesus) = warm surface current in equatorial eastern Pacific.
U N I T E D S T A T E S D E P A R T M E N T O F C O M M E R C E N A T I O N A L O C E A N I C A N D A T M O S P H E R I C A D M I N I S T R A T I O N CPC.
The South American Monsoon System: Recent Evolution and Current Status Update prepared by Climate Prediction Center / NCEP 4 June 2012 For more information,
El Niño-Southern Oscillation and regional rainfall of Vietnam Ramasamy Suppiah 10 December 2012.
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO): What is it?
El Niño / Southern Oscillation
El Nino.
El Nino Southern Oscillation
El Nino and La Nina An important atmospheric variation that has an average period of three to seven years. Goes between El Nino, Neutral, and La Nina (ENSO.
El Nino Southern Oscillation
Oceanic Influences on Climate
Chapter 19.3 Regional Wind Systems.
Sea Surface Temperature Trends in the Gulf of Alaska
What is Weather?
200 m 1000 m Fig (EFB).
Southwest climate basics
Ocean Currents El Niño and La Niña.
Relationship between ENSO and SST variation
El Niño and La Niña.
Summary Global Circulation
El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (“ENSO”)
NATS Lecture 15 Atmo-Ocean Interactions El Niño-Southern Oscillation
El Nino.
El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (“ENSO”) A quick look
Oceanic Circulation and ENSO
Presentation transcript:

Normal Conditions

The Walker Circulation

El Niño Conditions

Walker Cells El Niño: 1998 Event

Sea Surface Temperature (SST)

Prentice Hall Textbook animation linkTextbook animation link El Niño: Normal Conditions

Prentice Hall Textbook animation linkTextbook animation link El Niño: El Nino Development

El Niño: Normal Conditions

El Niño: El Nino Conditions

El Nino

El Nino: US Winter Temperatures Higher in mid continent Lower in south (Anomalies)

El Nino: US Winter Precipitation Higher in south and coastal regions (Anomalies)