The Tropical Pacific Ocean hosts various modes of climate variability, such as the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) which is the Earth’s strongest source of year-to-year climate variability. ENSO plays an important role in climate variability over mid-latitudes where complex interactions occur across a range of processes (e.g., Pacific Meridional Mode, Pacific Decadal Oscillation). The impact extends to ocean circulations, weather patterns and ocean phenomenon, for example marine heatwave in the North-eastern Pacific Ocean and rainfall across East Asia such as Japan and China.
Many theories have been developed to explain the generation mechanism of Tropical Pacific Ocean processes, particularly those that govern ENSO. However, gaps remain, as attested in part by persistent deficiencies in modeling and predicting the climate. Improving knowledge of some fundamental physics of the Tropical Pacific Ocean and mid-latitude variability is required to advance climate modeling and prediction. This includes further understanding interactions with remote regions, as the tropical Pacific Ocean interacts with processes occurring in other oceans through oceanic and atmospheric channels (Pacific Ocean-Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean-Atlantic Ocean, interaction with high-latitude climate such as the Arctic) on a broad range of timescales.
In this Research Topic, we welcome contributions that examine the basic physics and features of oceanic processes in the Tropical Pacific Ocean, including interactions with the atmosphere and remote regions, as well as the implications on mid-latitude climate, ocean, atmosphere, and hydroclimate (snowpack, drought, streamflow variability, etc.), and on subseasonal-to-decadal climate prediction.
In this Research Topic, we welcome contributions of Original Research Articles, Data Report, and Review Articles related to Tropical Pacific Ocean dynamics and its impact on mid-latitude. The highlights of this Research Topic include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
• Observational, modelling and theoretical understanding of the Tropical Pacific Ocean;
• Impacts of the Tropical Pacific Ocean on mid-latitude climate (weather) and the Indian and Atlantic Oceans; and
• Advances in the development of predictability methods (statistical, dynamical, complex model) in mid-latitude climate (weather).
The Tropical Pacific Ocean hosts various modes of climate variability, such as the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) which is the Earth’s strongest source of year-to-year climate variability. ENSO plays an important role in climate variability over mid-latitudes where complex interactions occur across a range of processes (e.g., Pacific Meridional Mode, Pacific Decadal Oscillation). The impact extends to ocean circulations, weather patterns and ocean phenomenon, for example marine heatwave in the North-eastern Pacific Ocean and rainfall across East Asia such as Japan and China.
Many theories have been developed to explain the generation mechanism of Tropical Pacific Ocean processes, particularly those that govern ENSO. However, gaps remain, as attested in part by persistent deficiencies in modeling and predicting the climate. Improving knowledge of some fundamental physics of the Tropical Pacific Ocean and mid-latitude variability is required to advance climate modeling and prediction. This includes further understanding interactions with remote regions, as the tropical Pacific Ocean interacts with processes occurring in other oceans through oceanic and atmospheric channels (Pacific Ocean-Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean-Atlantic Ocean, interaction with high-latitude climate such as the Arctic) on a broad range of timescales.
In this Research Topic, we welcome contributions that examine the basic physics and features of oceanic processes in the Tropical Pacific Ocean, including interactions with the atmosphere and remote regions, as well as the implications on mid-latitude climate, ocean, atmosphere, and hydroclimate (snowpack, drought, streamflow variability, etc.), and on subseasonal-to-decadal climate prediction.
In this Research Topic, we welcome contributions of Original Research Articles, Data Report, and Review Articles related to Tropical Pacific Ocean dynamics and its impact on mid-latitude. The highlights of this Research Topic include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
• Observational, modelling and theoretical understanding of the Tropical Pacific Ocean;
• Impacts of the Tropical Pacific Ocean on mid-latitude climate (weather) and the Indian and Atlantic Oceans; and
• Advances in the development of predictability methods (statistical, dynamical, complex model) in mid-latitude climate (weather).