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Modeling climate shift of El Nino variability in the Holocene

Zhengyu Liu, +2 more
- 01 Aug 2000 - 
- Vol. 27, Iss: 15, pp 2265-2268
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In this paper, a coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model is used to investigate the climatic shift of El Nino in the Holocene, which simulates a reduced ENSO intensity in the early and mid Holocene.
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A coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model is used to investigate climatic shift of El Nino in the Holocene. The model simulates a reduced ENSO intensity in the early and mid- Holocene, in agreement with paleoclimate record. The ENSO reduction is proposed to be caused by both an intensified Asian summer monsoon and a warm water subduction from the South Pacific into the equatorial thermocline.

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