ENSO and the natural variability in the flow of tropical rivers
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ENSO and the natural variability in the flow of tropical rivers
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This paper examines the relationship between the annual discharges of the Amazon, Congo, Paran ii, and Nile rivers and the sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies of the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean, an index of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Since river systems are comprehensive integrators of rainfall over large areas, accurate characterization of the flow regimes in major rivers will increase our understanding of large-scale global atmospheric dynamics. Results of this study reveal that the annual discharges of two large equatorial tropical rivers, the Amazon and. the Cungo, are weakly and negatively correlated with the equatorial Pacific SST anomalies with 10% of the variance in annual discharge explained by ENSO. Two smaller subtropical rivers, the Nile and the Parana, show a correlation chat is stronger by about a factor of 2. The Nile discharge is negatively correlated with the SST anomaly, whereas the Parana river discharge shows a positive relation. The tendency for reduced rainfall/discharge over large tropical convection zones in the ENSO warm phase is attributed to global scale subsidence associated with major upwelling in the eastern Pacific Ocean. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.