Tracking down the ENSO delayed oscillator with an adjoint OGCM

dc.creatorvan Oldenborgh, Geert Jan
dc.creatorBurgers, Gerrit
dc.creatorVenzke, Stephan
dc.creatorEckert, Christian
dc.creatorGiering, Ralf
dc.date1997-08-29
dc.date1998-08-11
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:04:49Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:04:49Z
dc.descriptionThe adjoint of an ocean general circulation model is used as a tool for investigating the causes of changes in ENSO SST indices. We identify adjoint Kelvin and Rossby waves in the sensitivities to sea level and wind stress at earlier times, which can be traced back for more than a year through western and weak eastern boundary reflections. Depending on the thermocline depth the first and second baroclinic modes are excited. The sensitivities to the heat flux and SST are local and decay in about a month. The sensitivities to the fluxes are converted into the influence of SST using the adjoint of a statistical atmosphere model. Focusing on SST perturbations in the index region itself, we recover, up to a scale factor, the delayed oscillator concept.
dc.description40 pp incl figures; latex with natbib, epsfig; mpegs available at http://www.knmi.nl/~oldenbor, asaccepted by MWR (except abstract)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9708037
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9708037
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/149517
dc.subjectAtmospheric and Oceanic Physics
dc.subjectComputational Physics
dc.titleTracking down the ENSO delayed oscillator with an adjoint OGCM
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