ENSO-African Monsoon Teleconnection in CMIP5 Models for current and future climate Titike, Hussen, Prajeesh, and Suyash Targeted Training Activity ENSO and Monsoon in the Current and Future Climate ICTP 10 August 2012
Pacific mean climate in CMIP5-Models African climate in CMIP5-Models Performance of CMIP5-Models ENSO and SON Rainfall relation, EEA ENSO and JJAS Rainfall relation, Sahel ENSO and JJAS Rainfall relation, NEA
Pacific mean climate in CMIP5-Models
African climate in CMIP5-Models
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Annual Cycle of Rainfall ( N, 10W – 20E) (5- 16N, 30 – 40 E) Sahel JJAS NEA JJAS (5S - 5N, 35 – 45 E) EEA SON
Interannual Variability (Sahel) ( N, 10W – 20E) ( N, 30 – 40E) (5S - 5N, 35 – 45E) ENA EEA
Performance of CMIP5-Models Power Spectrum analysis for Nino3 Index CMIP5 Models
correlation SON Rainfall with Nino3 (EEA )
correlation JJAS Rainfall with Nino3 (NEA )
correlation JJAS Rainfall with Nino3 (Sahel )
ENSO and JJAS Rainfall relation, NEA
ENSO and JJAS Rainfall relation, Sahel
JJAS Elnino Composite
JJAS Lanina Composite
ENSO and SON Rainfall relation, EEA
SON Elnino Composite
SON Lanina Composite
Based on our assessment we found the following models better in representing climatology and showing ENSO- African monsoon relations. MPI-ESM-MR HadGE2–ES IPSL-CM5A - MR GFDL–CM3 CNRM All the above models predict that the NINO 3.4 temperature, EEA precipitation and NEA precipitation would increase by the end of 21 st century. However the models disagree over the projection for Sahel precipitation.