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El Niño Chaos: Overlapping of Resonances Between the Seasonal Cycle and the Pacific Ocean-Atmosphere Oscillator

Year: 1994

Type: article

Abstract: The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle is modeled as a low-order chaotic process driven by the seasonal cycle. A simple model suggests that the equatorial Pacific ocean-atmosphere oscillator can go into nonlinear resonance with the seasonal cycle and that with strong enough coupling between the ocean and the atmosphere, the system may become chaotic as a result of irregular jumping of the ocean-atmosphere system among different nonlinear resonances. An analysis of a time series from an ENSO prediction model is consistent with the low-order chaos mechanism.

Source: Science

DOI: 10.1126/science.264.5155.72

Authors: Eli Tziperman, Lewi Stone, Mark A. Cane, Hans Jarosh

Institutions: Weizmann Institute of Science, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Language: English

Topic: Climate variability and models

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1973633221

FWCI: 15.56

Cites: 18

Cited by: 514

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