Impacts of the ENSO Lifecycle on Stratospheric Ozone and Temperature

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This study examines the variations of stratospheric temperature and ozone associated with the lifecycle of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Significant stratospheric temperature and ozone anomalies are found not only during El Nino and La Nina, but also during the transition phases in between, and anomalies during the cold-to-warm transition generally mirror those during the warm-to-cold transition. Zonal mean temperature anomalies propagate slowly upward over northern midlatitudes but downward over the Arctic. The strongest ozone anomalies over Antarctica occur one year after El Nino and La Nina, which show a dipole structure between the upper stratosphere and the lower stratosphere. The ozone anomalies are associated with anomalous Brewer-Dobson circulation and anomalous Eliassen-Palm flux divergence. For each figure, the "cor" file is the correlation coefficient, while the "cor95" file is the correlation coefficient for 95% confidence level. Butterworth.pro is the code for Butterworth filter.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.904269
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083697
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.904269
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Creator Lin, Jialin
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2019
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format application/zip
Size 895.8 kBytes
Discipline Earth System Research