How Does Shifting Pacific Ocean Warming Modulate on Tropical Cyclone Frequency over the South China Sea?

The different modulation of El Niño Modoki and canonical El Niño events on tropical cyclone (TC) frequency over the South China Sea (SCS) during boreal summer and fall for 1960–2009 is investigated. The bootstrap resampling method and two-sample permutation procedure are applied to simulate sampling...

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Published in:Journal of climate 2011-09, Vol.24 (17), p.4695-4700
Main Author: Chen, Guanghua
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Atmospheric circulation
Confidence interval
Confidence intervals
Continents
Convection
Cooling
Cyclones
Earth, ocean, space
El Nino
Exact sciences and technology
External geophysics
Geographic regions
Marine
Meteorology
Ocean warming
Oceanography
Oceans
Rain
Standard deviation
Storms
Summer
Tropical cyclones
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Summary:The different modulation of El Niño Modoki and canonical El Niño events on tropical cyclone (TC) frequency over the South China Sea (SCS) during boreal summer and fall for 1960–2009 is investigated. The bootstrap resampling method and two-sample permutation procedure are applied to simulate sampling distributions and conduct statistical tests, respectively. Results from the hypothesis testing indicate that the above-normal TC frequency over the SCS occurs during June–August (JJA) for the El Niño Modoki years, whereas the below-normal TC frequency is significant during September–November (SON) for the canonical El Niño years. The remarkably opposite modulations can be attributed to the different large-scale circulation anomalies, which are consistent with Matsuno–Gill-type responses to the tropical heating source/sink over the western North Pacific (WNP) and Maritime Continent for two kinds of Pacific Ocean warming events. In response to a broad-scale convection anomaly over the WNP during JJA for El Niño Modoki, a zonally elongated cyclonic anomaly dominates the WNP and SCS, leading to enhanced TC activity. In contrast, during SON for the canonical El Niño, a markedly strengthened cooling source centered in the Maritime Continent induces an anticyclonic anomaly over the SCS, resulting in suppressed TC activity.
ISSN:0894-8755
1520-0442
DOI:10.1175/2011jcli4140.1