The Combined Influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and El Niño-Southern Oscillation on Australian Rainfall
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Article Title | The Combined Influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and El Niño-Southern Oscillation on Australian Rainfall |
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ERA Journal ID | 1978 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Cowan, Tim, Wheeler, Mathew C. and Marshall, Andrew G. |
Journal Title | Journal of Climate |
Journal Citation | 36 (2), pp. 313-334 |
Number of Pages | 22 |
Year | 2023 |
Publisher | American Meteorological Society |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISSN | 0894-8755 |
1520-0442 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0357.1 |
Web Address (URL) | https://journals.ametsoc.org/configurable/content/journals$002fclim$002f36$002f2$002fJCLI-D-22-0357.1.xml?t:ac=journals%24002fclim%24002f36%24002f2%24002fJCLI-D-22-0357.1.xml |
Abstract | This study first re-examines the impact of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) on weekly rainfall probabilities and wind anomalies across Australia, motivated by the need for a contemporary understanding of the MJO’s influence on Australian rainfall, whether this has changed from a previous assessment published in 2009. With an extra 15 years of observations, we show that the strong impact of MJO phases 5 and 6 on northern Australia’s austral summer rainfall has weakened by around 5% over Australia’s Top End. In addition, austral spring has seen a weakening of the suppressed rainfall teleconnection with MJO phases 2 and 3 over southeast Australia. The weakened relationships make it a little harder to use the MJO to explain rainfall variations over northern Australia in summer and southeast Australia in spring in the current climate. The study’s second motivation is to further document the combined influence of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the MJO on rainfall. In summer during El Niño, as compared with La Niña or neutral ENSO conditions, there are stronger reductions in rainfall probabilities over northern Australia associated with the dry MJO phases 8, 1, and 2, but the significantly increased rainfall probabilities in MJO phases 5 and 6 remain much the same. Indeed, the MJO dominates over ENSO in its influence on weekly rainfall probabilities in the north in summer. In contrast, ENSO tends to dominate across subtropical and southern Australia in spring. The updated probability maps are an important resource for estimating the intraseasonal influence of the MJO and ENSO on Australian rainfall. |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 370105. Atmospheric dynamics |
370108. Meteorology | |
370202. Climatology | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | Centre for Applied Climate Sciences |
Bureau of Meterology, Australia |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/z09y0/the-combined-influence-of-the-madden-julian-oscillation-and-el-ni-o-southern-oscillation-on-australian-rainfall
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