Not exact matches
Referred to as
equatorial noise or «Russell noise,»
in tribute to Russell — who is now a professor of space physics and planetary science at UCLA — the
waves are among the most frequently observed emissions
in the near - Earth space.
In fact, something like ENSO is not statistical at all — it is a single behavior described by a single standing -
wave that covers a large expanse of the
equatorial Pacific.
The Paramagnetic Oxygen Transport Thesis explains the failure of Brewer - Dobson
equatorial ozone formation, the Ozone Hole
in 1983, continued Antarctic cold temps concurrent with Arctic warming, mid-latitude ozone formation which accelerates jet streams and elongates Rossby
wave loops, and wandering magnetic poles which control extreme weather and climate change.
Once
in awhile a beautiful similarity is noticed: https://m.phys.org/news/2017-10-earth-climate-topological-insulators-common.html
Equatorial body
waves for the same reason as conduction
in so - called topological insulators.
There is an interesting process
in the
equatorial stratosphere wherein upward transport of momentum and energy by
waves is absorbed depending on the wind structure
in such a way as to cause the wind to oscillate from easterly to westerly on a timescale that has no direct dependence on the timescales of any forcing — a bit like an internal clock (QBO).
Equatorial Kelvin
waves propagate to the east
in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, using the equator as a guide.
It is only a proxy, sits there
in the middle of the
equatorial countercurrent and watches El Nino
waves go by.
ENSO is a system involving Kelvin
waves and Hadley and Walker cell circulation
in the
equatorial Pacific.
What makes ENSO possible is the blockage of the
equatorial currents
in the Western Pacific that allows the Indo - Pacific Warm Pool to form that is the source of the El Nino
wave.
Periodically an El Nino
wave crosses the ocean along the
equatorial countercurrent and washes ashore
in South America.
Warm water pooled
in the central Pacific instead of the eastern
equatorial Pacific, bringing stronger
waves and higher sea levels to the West Coast.
Shinoda T., P. E. Roundy and G. N. Kiladis (May 2008): Variability of Intraseasonal Kelvin
Waves in the
Equatorial Pacific Ocean.
During the typical El Niño, the warm phase of that oscillation, the trade winds weaken, and episodic westerly wind bursts
in the western
equatorial Pacific generate internal
waves into the ocean.
These
equatorial waves travel
in the opposite direction of Kelvin
waves at less than one meter per second.
Features of the model described here include the following: (1) tripolar grid to resolve the Arctic Ocean without polar filtering, (2) partial bottom step representation of topography to better represent topographically influenced advective and
wave processes, (3) more accurate equation of state, (4) three - dimensional flux limited tracer advection to reduce overshoots and undershoots, (5) incorporation of regional climatological variability
in shortwave penetration, (6) neutral physics parameterization for representation of the pathways of tracer transport, (7) staggered time stepping for tracer conservation and numerical efficiency, (8) anisotropic horizontal viscosities for representation of
equatorial currents, (9) parameterization of exchange with marginal seas, (10) incorporation of a free surface that accommodates a dynamic ice model and
wave propagation, (11) transport of water across the ocean free surface to eliminate unphysical «virtual tracer flux» methods, (12) parameterization of tidal mixing on continental shelves.