Title
Demonstrating the asymmetry of the Indian Ocean Dipole response in regional earth system model of CORDEX-SA
Date Issued
01 August 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
University of Alcala
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
An accurate representation of the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) is crucial for the reliable projection of Indian summer monsoon rainfall, making it necessary to improve the understanding of the response of the IOD in the warming climate. For the first time, a high-resolution regional earth system model (RESM) over the CORDEX-SA domain is used to investigate the IOD characteristics. The model performance is evaluated in simulating the IOD and associated mechanism. RESM shows a good resemblance in simulating IOD phases (positive and negative). However, the systematic discrepancy is observed in magnitude. Additionally, RESM well represented the positive IOD's inter-event variability. For example, the stronger event dominated by significant cold anomalies over Sumatra with enhanced westward-extended while a moderate event shows weak cooling confined to the region of Sumatra. Additionally, RESM shows potential to distinguish the ENSO and non-ENSO years with more remarkable skill in representing the spatial pattern of SST over IOD region during non-ESNO years than ENSO years. The RESM realistically simulated the IOD amplitude with greater skill than CMIP5/6 models reported in the earlier studies, indicating reliability towards the projection of the Indian summer monsoon. The weaker IOD-ENSO relationship is caused by producing the more significant number of IOD during non-ENSO years. Despite this reliable fidelity, IOD's slightly earlier peak is driven by the early establishment of low-level equatorial easterly wind. This study provided valuable insight into the IOD's different phases, responsible forcings, and limitations of the RESM in accounting for the role of internal climate variability that can be useful for further improvement in the model physics.
Volume
273
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Investigación climática
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85128206221
Source
Atmospheric Research
ISSN of the container
01698095
Sponsor(s)
We thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions, which have helped us improve the overall quality of the paper. This work is jointly supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, grant number DST/INT/RUS/RSF/P-33/G , and the Russian Science Foundation (Project No.: 19-47-02015 ). PK acknowledges funding from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) , Govt. of India grant number SB/S2/RJN-080/2014 , and Department of Science and Technology (DST) grant number DST/CCP/NCM/69/2017(G) . DS was supported in the framework of the state assignment of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia (theme No. 0128-2021-0014 ). The authors are thankful to the respective agencies of the IMD, ECMWF ERA-Interim, and HadISST data products for making these datasets available. Simulations were performed on the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) under the grant number ba1144 . The authors declared that the manuscript contents are novel and neither published nor under consideration anywhere else. The authors also declared that they have no known financial interest.
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