Variability in latent heat flux over the tropical pacific in association with recent two ENSO events (original) (raw)
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This paper analyzed the variations of latent heat flux (LHF) over the tropical Pacific in the period 1978-1988 by using COADS (Comprehensive Ocean and Atmospheric Data Set). It has been founded that the interannual variability of LHF exhibits strong ENSO signal, with the significant increasing LHF during the recent two warm events, i.e., 1982 / 83 and 1986 / 87 and decreasing LHF in the cold episodes. However the longitudinal distribution of the LHF departures varies from event to event. In the eastern Pacific, the specific humidity difference at air-sea interface_(q_ s - q a ) makes a dominant contribution to the interannual variability of LHF ( r = 0.73 ), while in the western Pacific the surface wind speed,W and the_q_ s - q a make nearly equal contribution to that of LHF.
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- Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Academia Sinica and CIRES, University of Colorado, 80309, Boulder, CO, USA
Fu Congbin - NOAA / ERL, 325 Broadway, 80303, Boulder, CO, USA
Henry Diaz - State Meteorological Administration, 100081, Beijing
Fan Huijun
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- Fu Congbin
- Henry Diaz
- Fan Huijun
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Congbin, F., Diaz, H. & Huijun, F. Variability in latent heat flux over the tropical pacific in association with recent two ENSO events.Adv. Atmos. Sci. 9, 351–358 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02656945
- Received: 16 September 1991
- Revised: 16 January 1992
- Issue date: September 1992
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02656945