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IPSL/CGAM workshop on Tropical Climate 26-27 May 2005 The monsoon-ENSO teleconnection and different ENSO regimes in a flux corrected future climate Andrew Turner, Pete Inness, Julia Slingo Why flux adjust? • Coupled GCMs generating mean climatologies more in line with observations are more likely to simulate the correct interannual variability of tropical precipitation (Sperber and Palmer, 1996). • State of equatorial Pacific SSTs long regarded as an important predictor of the Asian summer monsoon (Charney and Shukla, 1981; many others). • For a GCM to be used for seasonal prediction it should be able to simulate both these SSTs and the teleconnection between them and the monsoon. • This depends on the Walker circulation being correctly represented. The Model HadCM3: • Atmosphere: 3.75x2.5 at L30 (better representation of intraseasonal tropical convection then L19 – Inness et al., 2001). • Ocean: 1.25x1.25, 20 levels. • 100 year integration. Why flux adjust? HadCM3 mean summer climate • 3.75lon x 2.5lat, L30 configuration (Inness et al., 2001) HadCM3 mean summer climate Heat flux adjustments Annual mean Standard deviation • Flux adjustments devised by Inness et al. (2003) to give better representation of MJO. • Annual cycle of FA applied to a 100 year coupled integration. • Tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans only. Improvements to the mean state Improvements to the mean state ENSO properties in the current climate all are Nino-3 regions • Shallower and more intense thermocline in HadCM3FA, coupled with warmer SSTs on the equator (higher coupling strength) allows for stronger ENSO. • Biennial increase related to coupling strength. ENSO properties in the current climate ERA-40 HadCM3 HadCM3FA DJF Nino-3 SST lag-correlated with equatorial Pacific SST (after Ashrit et al., 2003) • El Nino periodicity has greater spread. • Better warm pool behaviour; pre-El Nino extension more WWEs, which help trigger El Nino (Vecchi and Harrison, 2000; Lengaigne et al., 2004) The monsoon-ENSO teleconnection See Turner et al. 2005 for more information! • Stronger and better timed teleconnection with flux adjustments. • Monsoons feed back on Pacific system to further intensify ENSO. HadCM3 HadCM3FA • Warmest waters further east, repositioning the convection and Walker circulation. The effect of climate change The effect of climate change ENSO properties in future climate ENSO properties in future climate The teleconnection Summary and the future… Current climate: • Flux adjustments, whilst having some drawbacks, can help correct mean state and have beneficial effect on monsoon predictability. • Stronger teleconnection (and greater coupling); more realistic Walker circulation & El Nino development. • Flux adjustments highlight the danger in assuming a linear system, anomaly forecasting etc. Future climate: • Combining increased greenhouse gases with flux correction may be pushing HadCM3 closer to some ‘bifurcation point’. • An extreme monsoon may be sending ENSO into the limiting cycle, due to increased air-sea interaction in the west Pacific. Summary and the future… Need to determine: • Why is 2xCO2 FA able to flip between different regimes? • What causes the regime change? anomalous monsoon (increased air-sea coupling), period of intense WWEs? A further HadCM3FA 2xCO2 integration will see if biennial regime returns. References • Ashrit et al. (2003) J. Meteorol. Soc. Jpn., 81. • Charney and Shukla (1981) Monsoon Dynamics: predictability of monsoons, CUP • Inness et al. (2001) Clim. Dyn., 17. • Inness et al. (2003) J. Clim., 16. • Lengaigne et al. (2004) Clim. Dyn., 23. • Turner et al. (2005) Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 131.(607) • Vecchi and Harrison (2000) J. Clim., 31.