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标题：El Nio/Southern Oscillation response to low-latitude volcanic eruptions depends on ocean pre-conditions and eruption timing
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作者：Evgeniya Predybaylo ; Georgiy Stenchikov ; Andrew T. Wittenberg 等
期刊名称：Communications Earth & Environment
电子版ISSN：2662-4435
出版年度：2020
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：1-13
DOI：10.1038/s43247-020-0013-y
语种：English
出版社：Nature Research
摘要：Proxy-based reconstructions of the past suggest that the Pacific ocean has often shown El Nio-like warming after low-latitude volcanic eruptions, while climate model simulations have suggested diverse responses. Here we present simulations from a coupled ocean-atmosphere model that illuminate the roles of ocean preconditioning, eruption magnitude and timing, and air-sea feedbacks in the El Nio/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) response to these eruptions. A deterministic component of the response, which dominates for boreal summer eruptions, leads to cooler tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures in the eruption year and El Nio-like warming the following year. A stochastic component is also important, especially for boreal winter eruptions. The simulated ENSO response depends nonlinearly on the eruption magnitude and the tropical Pacific conditions before the eruption. We conclude that adequate sampling is critical to accurately assess the ENSO responses in both models and observations. The Pacific ocean response to low-latitude volcanic eruptions depends on ENSO phase, eruption magnitude and stochastic effects, suggests a grand ensemble of climate model simulations.