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Unraveling the Mystery of Indian Monsoon Failure During El Niño
Abstract
The 132-year historical rainfall record reveals that severe droughts in India have always been accompanied by El Niño events. Yet El Niño events have not always produced severe droughts. We show that El Niño events with the warmest sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the central equatorial Pacific are more effective in focusing drought-producing subsidence over India than events with the warmest SSTs in the eastern equatorial Pacific. The physical basis for such different impacts is established using atmospheric general circulation model experiments forced with idealized tropical Pacific warmings. These findings have important implications for Indian monsoon forecasting.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kumar, K. K., Rajagopalan, B., Hoerling, M., Bates, G., & Cane, M.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2006-10-06
- Volume
- 314
- Issue
- 5796
- Pages
- 115-119
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W1970020090
- Cited by
- 784
- References
- 13
- FWCI
- 18.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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