Long Wave Resonance in Tropical Oceans and Implications on Climate: The Pacific Ocean

• Published in: Pure and applied geophysics Vol. 173; no. 6; pp. 2119 - 2145
• Main Author: Pinault, Jean-Louis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.06.2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Acceleration; Basins; Climate; Coupling; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; El Nino; Estimating; Geophysics; Geophysics/Geodesy; Kelvin waves; La Nina; Marine; Ocean waves; Oceans; Pacific Ocean; Seismology; Pacific Ocean; IS, Tropical Pacific; coupling between basin modes; tropical Pacific; El Niño; Resonantly forced waves

The dynamics of the tropical Pacific can be understood satisfactorily by invoking the coupling between the basin modes of 1-, 4- and 8-year average periods. The annual quasi-stationary wave (QSW) is a first baroclinic-mode, fourth meridional-mode Rossby wave resonantly forced by easterlies. The quad...