Western equatorial Pacific productivity and carbonate dissolution over the last 550 kyr: Foraminiferal and nannofossil evidence from ODP Hole 807A

2007 ◽  
Vol 64 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 121-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiangyong Zhang ◽  
Pinxian Wang ◽  
Qianyu Li ◽  
Xinrong Cheng ◽  
Haiyan Jin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Carbonate Dissolution ◽  
Western Equatorial Pacific

Carbonate dissolution and planktonic foraminiferal assemblages observed in three piston cores collected above the lysocline in the western equatorial Pacific

2003 ◽  
Vol 47 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 227-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsunori Kimoto ◽  
Hidetomo Takaoka ◽  
Motoyoshi Oda ◽  
Minoru Ikehara ◽  
Hiromi Matsuoka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Carbonate Dissolution ◽  
Western Equatorial Pacific

Estimation of the Stability of Acoustic Multipath in Long-Range Propagation at the Western Equatorial Pacific

1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (Part 1, No. 5B) ◽  
pp. 3366-3369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Hachiya ◽  
Toshiaki Nakamura ◽  
Iwao Nakano
Keyword(s):  
Long Range ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Western Equatorial Pacific ◽  
The Stability

scholarly journals Air-sea exchange of CO2 in the central and western equatorial Pacific in 1990

Tellus B ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masao Ishii ◽  
Hisayuki Yoshikawa Inoue
Keyword(s):  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Western Equatorial Pacific

Air-sea exchange of CO2 in the central and western equatorial Pacific in 1990

Tellus B ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
MASAO ISHII ◽  
HISAYUKI YOSHIKAWA INOUE
Keyword(s):  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Western Equatorial Pacific

scholarly journals One plausible reason for the change in ENSO characteristics in the 2000s

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 951-984
Author(s):  
V. N. Stepanov
Keyword(s):  
Southern Ocean ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Warm Water ◽  
Water Volume ◽  
Atmospheric Conditions ◽  
Enso Events ◽  
Wind Variability ◽  
Western Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Warm Water Volume ◽  
The Tropics

Abstract. It is well known that El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) causes floods, droughts and the collapse of fisheries, therefore forecasting of ENSO is an important task in climate researches. Variations in the equatorial warm water volume of the tropical Pacific and wind variability in the western equatorial Pacific has been considered to be a good ENSO predictor. However, in the 2000s, the interrelationship between these two characteristics and ENSO onsets became weak. This article attempts to find some plausible explanation for this. The results presented here demonstrate a possible link between the variability of atmospheric conditions over the Southern Ocean and their impact on the ocean circulation leading to the amplifying/triggering of ENSO events. It is shown that the variability of the atmospheric conditions upstream of Drake Passage can strongly influence ENSO events. The interrelationship between ENSO and variability in the equatorial warm water volume of the equatorial Pacific, together with wind variability in the western equatorial Pacific has recently weakened. It can be explained by the fact that the process occurred in the Southern Ocean recently became a major contributor amplifying ENSO events (in comparison with the processes of interaction between the atmosphere and the ocean in the tropics of the Pacific). Likely it is due to a warmer ocean state observed from the end of the 1990s that led to smaller atmospheric variability in the tropics and insignificant their changes in the Southern Ocean.

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