Mixed diversity of shifting IOD and El Niño dominates the location of Maritime Continent autumn drought

Chundi Hu; Tao Lian; Ho-Nam Cheung; Shaobo Qiao; Zhenning Li; Kaiqiang Deng; Song Yang; Dake Chen

doi:10.1093/nsr/nwaa020

Mixed diversity of shifting IOD and El Niño dominates the location of Maritime Continent autumn drought

Natl Sci Rev. 2020 Jul;7(7):1150-1153. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwaa020. Epub 2020 Feb 13.

Authors

Chundi Hu¹, Tao Lian², Ho-Nam Cheung¹, Shaobo Qiao¹, Zhenning Li³, Kaiqiang Deng⁴, Song Yang¹, Dake Chen⁵

Affiliations

¹ School of Atmospheric Sciences, and Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies, Sun Yat-sen University, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, China.
³ Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.
⁴ Department of Earth Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
⁵ Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), and Key Laboratory of Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean System (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, China.

Abstract

The Maritime Continent is a huge heat source region over the Indo-Pacific warm pool and it plays a key role in global weather/climate variations. The locations of Maritime Continent autumn droughts, linked to frequent rampant forest wildfires, are closely related to the mixed diversity of El Niño and Indian Ocean Dipole events.