Connection between interannual variability of the western Pacific and eastern Indian Oceans in the 1997 - 1998 El Nino event

In this paper, the sea surface height and the heat content of the upper ocean are analyzed to retrieve the relationship of interannual variabilities between the tropical western Pacific and eastern Indian Oceans during the 1997 - 1998 El Nino event. In the prophase of this El Nino, the negative sea level anomalies (SLA) occurred in the tropical western Pacific (TWP) firstly, and then appeared in the tropical eastern Indian Ocean (TEI). The negative heat content anomalies (HCA) emerged in the TWP before this El Nino burst while the SLA signals developed over there. During the mature stage of this El Nino, two kinds of signals in the TWP and TEI turned to be the maximum negative sequently. Due to the connected interannual adjustment between the TEI and TWP, we adopted a method to estimate the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) transport by calculating the HCA budget in the TEI. The indirect estimation of the ITF was comparable to the observation values. Therefore, the anomalies in the TEI had been proved as adv     

1997～1998年El Niño期间印度洋和西太平洋上层海洋的联系

通过对海面高度场和上层海洋热含量年际变化的分析,揭示了1997～1998 El Ni(n)o期间热带东印度洋与热带西太平洋上层海洋的内在关系.在1997～1998 El Ni(n)o事件爆发前期,海面高度距平信号首先在热带西太平洋出现.随后在热带东印度洋海区也出现了负距平.上层海洋热含量的负距平信号在El Ni(n)o前期也同样先出现在热带西太平洋.依据热带东印度洋和热带西太平洋年际尺度调整存在的联系,我们采用热带东印度洋海洋上层热含量距平的增长,估算印度尼西亚贯穿流的流量,得到的结果与观测具有相同的量级.这种间接估计表明热带东印度洋在1997～1998 El Ni(n)o期间的异常,是可以部分经由热带西太平洋距平通过贯穿流而引起的.