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Why Were Sea Surface Temperatures so Different in the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic in June 2005 and 2006?
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  • Journal of physical oceanography, 2009-06, Vol.39 (6), p.1416-1431
Ort / Verlag
Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
Quelle
Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (Open access)
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  • Abstract A comparison of June 2005 and June 2006 sea surface temperatures in the eastern equatorial Atlantic exhibits large variability in the properties of the equatorial cold tongue, with far colder temperatures in 2005 than in 2006. This difference is found to result mainly from a time shift in the development of the cold tongue between the two years. Easterlies were observed to be stronger in the western tropical Atlantic in April–May 2005 than in April–May 2006, and these winds favorably preconditioned oceanic subsurface conditions in the eastern Atlantic. However, it is also shown that a stronger than usual intraseasonal intensification of the southeastern trades was responsible for the rapid and early intense cooling of the sea surface temperatures in mid-May 2005 over a broad region extending from 20°W to the African coast and from 6°S to the equator. This particular event underscores the ability of local intraseasonal wind stress variability in the Gulf of Guinea to initiate the cold tongue season and thus to dramatically impact the SST in the eastern equatorial Atlantic. Such intraseasonal wind intensifications are of potential importance for year-to-year variability in the onset of the African monsoon.
Sprache
Englisch
Identifikatoren
ISSN: 0022-3670
eISSN: 1520-0485
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO4030.1
Titel-ID: cdi_hal_primary_oai_HAL_hal_00406934v1

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