6 results on '"Choco jet"'
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2. The easternmost tropical Pacific. Part II: Seasonal and intraseasonal modes of atmospheric variability.
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Amador, Jorge A., Durán-Quesada, A. M., Rivera, E. R., Mora, G., Sáenz, F., Calderón, B., and Mora, N.
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CLIMATE change , *OCEANOGRAPHERS , *MARINE biologists , *OCEAN-atmosphere interaction , *TROPICAL storms ,PACIFIC & Mountain States - Abstract
This is Part II of a two-part review about climate and climate variability focused on the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) and the Caribbean Sea (CS). Both parts are aimed at providing oceanographers, marine biologists, and other ocean scientists, a guiding base for ocean-atmosphere interaction processes affecting the CS, the ETP, and the waters of Isla del Coco. Isla del Coco National Park is a Costa Rican World Heritage site. Part I analyzed the mean fields for both basins and a larger region covering 25° S - 35° N, 20° W - 130° W. Here we focus on a smaller area (65° W - 95° W, 0° - 20° N), as a complement to Part 1. Incoming solar radiation and surface energy fluxes reveal the complex nature of the ETP and CS for convective activity and precipitation on seasonal and intraseasonal time scales. Both regions are relevant as sources of evaporation and the associated moisture transport processes. The American Monsoon System influences the climate and climate variability of the ETP and CS, however, the precise way systems affect regional precipitation and transport of moisture, within the Intra Americas Sea (IAS) are not clear. Although the Caribbean Low-Level Jet (CLLJ) is known to act as a conveyor belt for moisture transport, intraseasonal and seasonal modes of the CLLJ and their interactions with other IAS systems, have to be further investigated. Trans-isthmic jets, exert a variable seasonal wind stress force over the ocean surface co-generating regions of great marine productivity. Isolated convection, the seasonal migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone, the hurricane season, the Mid-Summer Drought, the seasonal and intraseasonal behavior of low-level jets and their interactions with transients, and the southward incursion of cold fronts contribute to regional seasonal precipitation. Many large-scale systems, such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO, also influence the variability of precipitation by modulating regional features associated with convection and precipitation. Monthly tropical storm (TS) activity in the CS and ETP basins is restricted to the period May-November, with very few cases in December. The CS presents TS peak activity during August, as well as for the number of hurricanes and major hurricanes, in contrast to the ETP that shows the same features during September. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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3. La corriente en chorro de bajo nivel sobre los Llanos Venezolanos de Sur América.
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Torrealba, Eddison R. and Amador, Jorge A.
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VERTICAL wind shear ,JET streams ,CLEAR air turbulence ,ATMOSPHERIC circulation ,WINDS - Abstract
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- 2010
4. Annual and inter-annual variability of the present climate in northern South America and southern Mesoamerica
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Poveda, Germán, Waylen, Peter R., and Pulwarty, Roger S.
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CLIMATE change , *GLOBAL temperature changes , *PRECIPITATION variability , *OCEAN-atmosphere interaction - Abstract
Abstract: Present climate of northwestern South America and the southern Isthmus is detailed in terms of major hydro-climatic controls, supported by evidence from station records, reanalysis data and satellite information. In this tropical region, precipitation is the principal hydro-climatological variable to display great variability. The primary objective is to view the controls that operate at intra-seasonal to inter-decadal time scales. This is a topographical complex region whose climate influences range in provenance from the South Atlantic to the Canadian Prairies, and from the North Atlantic to the Eastern Pacific. The situation is further complicated by interactions and feedbacks, in time and space, between these influences, which are interconnected over various scales. The greatest single control on the annual cycle is the meridional migration of the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone and its pattern of associated trade winds. Consideration of these alone and their interaction with the Cordilleras of the Andes and Central America produce a variety of unimodal and bimodal regimes. Regionally, two low level jet streams, the westerly Choco jet (5°N) and the easterly San Andrés jet (12–14°N), and their seasonal variability, have tremendous significance, as do mesoscale convective storms and mid-latitude cold fronts from both the northern (“nortes”) and southern (“friagems”) hemispheres. There are many examples of hydro-climatological feedbacks within the region. Of these the most notable is the interaction between evaporation over the Amazon, precipitation onto the eastern Andes and streamflow from the headwaters of the Amazon. This is further compounded by the high percentages of recycled precipitation over large areas of the tropics and the potential impacts of anthropogenic modification of the land surface. The El Niño-Southern Oscillation phenomenon (ENSO) is the greatest single cause of interannual variability within the region, yet its effects are not universal in their timing, sign or magnitude. A set of regional physical connections to ENSO are established and their varying local manifestations are viewed in the context of the dominant precipitation generating mechanisms and feedbacks at that location. In addition, some potential impacts of longer run variations within the ocean-atmosphere system of the Atlantic are examined independently and in conjunction with ENSO. This review of the climatic controls and feedbacks in the region provides a spatial and temporal framework within which the highly complex set of factors and their interactions may be interpreted from the past. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2006
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5. Las corrientes superficiales de chorro del Chocó y el Caribe durante los eventos de El Niño y El Niño Modoki
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Paola A. Arias, Lina María López Serna, Sara C. Vieira, and Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
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Choco jet ,Jet (fluid) ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Caribbean low-level jet ,General Mathematics ,Chorro del Caribe ,0207 environmental engineering ,General Physics and Astronomy ,02 engineering and technology ,General Chemistry ,Colombia ,01 natural sciences ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,General Energy ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Modoki ,Climatology ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Environmental science ,Precipitation ,020701 environmental engineering ,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences ,ENSO ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Chorro del Chocó - Abstract
El objetivo de este artículo fue analizar la influencia de dos tipos de eventos de El Niño, conocidos como Canónico y Modoki, en las corrientes superficiales de chorro del Chocó y el Caribe, importantes mecanismos de transporte de humedad y generación de precipitación en Colombia. La influencia de estos tipos de eventos de El Niño en las corrientes superficiales de interés se examinó con base en las diferencias entre las características en la climatología de estos chorros durante dichos eventos y el análisis de correlaciones entre estos fenómenos. Los resultados obtenidos indicaron que en los dos primeros trimestres del año, la intensidad de estas corrientes superficiales se ve disminuida durante ambos tipos de eventos El Niño, en tanto que en los dos últimos trimestres del año se observan efectos contrarios: un fortalecimiento del chorro del Caribe y un debilitamiento del chorro del Chocó. Sin embargo, la magnitud del impacto durante los eventos El Niño Modoki es menor que durante los eventos El Niño Canónico, aunque se observa un mayor número de eventos El Niño Modoki durante el periodo de análisis. Lo anterior es fundamental para la elaboración de pronósticos de precipitación en Colombia. The objective of this paper was to analyze the influence of two types of El Niño events (known as Canonical and Modoki) on the Chocó and the Caribbean low-level jets, which are important moisture transport and precipitation generation mechanisms in Colombia. We explored the influence of these types of El Niño events on these low-level jets by analyzing the differences between climatological features of these jets and the patterns observed during the occurrence of these two El Niño events, as well as the correlations between these phenomena. Our results indicated that for the first half of the year, the strength of these low-level jets diminished during the occurrence of both types of events, while in the last half of the year opposite effects were observed, with the strengthening of the Caribbean low-level jet and the weakening of the Choco jet during the occurrence of both events. However, the magnitude of the impacts observed during Canonical El Niño events was larger than during El Niño Modoki events. This finding Ciencias de la Tierrais essential in the development of rainfall forecasting in Colombia.
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- 2018
6. La región oriental del Pacífico Tropical. Parte II: Modos atmosféricos de variabilidad estacional e intra-estacional
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N. Mora, Blanca Calderón, F. Sáenz, Jorge A. Amador, Guido C. Mora, Ana María Durán-Quesada, and Erick R. Rivera
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0106 biological sciences ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,corrientes trans-ístmicos ,Wind stress ,Monsoon ,01 natural sciences ,seasonal and intraseasonal variability modes ,Atlantic multidecadal oscillation ,Madden-Julian Oscillation ,Corriente en Chorro de Bajo Nivel del Caribe ,Cocos Island ,trans-isthmic low-level jets ,Precipitation ,ríos atmosféricos ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Chocó Jet ,atmospheric rivers ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,Intertropical Convergence Zone ,Madden–Julian oscillation ,modos de variabilidad climática estacional e intra-estacional ,Cold front ,Climatology ,Caribbean Low-Level Jet ,Environmental science ,Isla del Coco ,Tropical cyclone ,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences ,Oscilación de Madden-Julian ,Chorro del Chocó - Abstract
This is Part II of a two-part review about climate and climate variability focused on the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) and the Caribbean Sea (CS). Both parts are aimed at providing oceanographers, marine biologists, and other ocean scientists, a guiding base for ocean-atmosphere interaction processes affecting the CS, the ETP, and the waters of Isla del Coco. Isla del Coco National Park is a Costa Rican World Heritage site. Part I analyzed the mean fields for both basins and a larger region covering 25º S - 35º N, 20º W - 130º W. Here we focus on a smaller area (65º W - 95º W, 0º - 20º N), as a complement to Part 1. Incoming solar radiation and surface energy fluxes reveal the complex nature of the ETP and CS for convective activity and precipitation on seasonal and intraseasonal time scales. Both regions are relevant as sources of evaporation and the associated moisture transport processes. The American Monsoon System influences the climate and climate variability of the ETP and CS, however, the precise way systems affect regional precipitation and transport of moisture, within the Intra Americas Sea (IAS) are not clear. Although the Caribbean Low-Level Jet (CLLJ) is known to act as a conveyor belt for moisture transport, intraseasonal and seasonal modes of the CLLJ and their interactions with other IAS systems, have to be further investigated. Trans-isthmic jets, exert a variable seasonal wind stress force over the ocean surface co-generating regions of great marine productivity. Isolated convection, the seasonal migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone, the hurricane season, the Mid-Summer Drought, the seasonal and intraseasonal behavior of low-level jets and their interactions with transients, and the southward incursion of cold fronts contribute to regional seasonal precipitation. Many large-scale systems, such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO, also influence the variability of precipitation by modulating regional features associated with convection and precipitation. Monthly tropical storm (TS) activity in the CS and ETP basins is restricted to the period May-November, with very few cases in December. The CS presents TS peak activity during August, as well as for the number of hurricanes and major hurricanes, in contrast to the ETP that shows the same features during September. Esta es la Parte II de una revisión en dos partes del clima y la variabilidad climática, enfocada en el Pacífico Tropical del Este (PTE) y el Mar Caribe (MC). Ambas partes del trabajo tienen como objetivo proveer a oceanógrafos, biólogos marinos y otros científicos marinos, una guía base de las interacciones océano-atmósfera que afectan el PTE, el MC y las aguas de la Isla del Coco, Patrimonio de la Humanidad de Costa Rica. La Parte I analizó para el PTE y MC y para las región 25º S - 35º N, 20º W - 130º W, los campos medios anuales. En este trabajo el área de interés es 65º W - 95° W, 0º - 20º N, como complemento a la Parte I. La radiación solar y los flujos superficiales de energía muestran una compleja naturaleza del PTE y MC, en relación con la actividad convectiva y la precipitación en escalas de tiempo estacionales e intra-estacionales. Ambas regiones son importantes como fuentes de evaporación y para los procesos de transporte regional de humedad. El Sistema Monsónico de América (SMA) influencia el clima y variabilidad climática del PTE y CS, sin embargo, la forma precisa en que los sistemas actúan para afectar la precipitación regional y el transporte de humedad, en la región de los Mares Intra Americanos (MIA), no es clara. A pesar de que la Corriente en Chorro del Caribe (CCC) actúa como una cinta transportadora de humedad, los modos estacionales e intra-estacionales de la CCC y sus interacciones con otro sistemas en la región del MIA, tienen que ser aún investigados. Las corrientes trans-istmicas ejercen un variable esfuerzo estacional del viento sobre la superficie oceánica cogenerando regiones de gran productividad marina. Convección aislada, la migración estacional de la Zona de Convergencia Intertropical, la temporada de huracanes, el veranillo, el comportamiento estacional e intra-estacional de las corrientes de bajo nivel y su interacción con sistemas transitorios y la incursión en latitudes bajas de frentes fríos contribuyen a la precipitación estacional en la región. Muchos sistemas de gran escala, como el Niño-Oscilación del Sur, la Oscilación Multidecenal del Atlántico y la Oscilación de Madden-Julian contribuyen también a la variabilidad de la precipitación, al modular características regionales asociadas a la convección y la precipitación. La actividad mensual de tormentas tropicales (TT) se restringe en el PTE y MC al periodo mayo-noviembre, con muy pocos casos en diciembre. El MC presenta picos de TT durante agosto, lo mismo que el número de huracanes y el de huracanes fuertes, en contraste con el PTE que muestra estas características durante septiembre. El final de la temporada de TT es más abrupta en el PTE que en el MC, en donde octubre es un periodo menos activo que septiembre-octubre en el MC.
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- 2016
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