@article{390509cfaa1a4273941e3c049d3fb6da,
title = "Remote Impact of the Equatorial Pacific on Florida Current Transport",
abstract = "Satellite and in-situ measurements are used in this study to investigate a possible link between the Florida Current transport (FCT) and temperature changes in the equatorial Pacific. Consistent with the geostrophic nature of the current, the FCT variability shows good correspondence with the changes in sea surface height differences (∆SSH) between the eastern (SSHeast) and western (SSHwest) sides of the Florida Straits. While the variability of SSHwest is mostly associated with seasonal and shorter timescale fluctuations of ∆SSH and FCT, changes in SSHeast are strongly related to the interannual variability of ∆SSH and FCT. A significant correlation is found between the FCT and the Oceanic Ni{\~n}o Index (ONI) on interannual timescales, which explains 21% of the interannual FCT variance. The connection of ONI with FCT is through its impact on SSHeast, associated with the anomalous convergence/divergence in the Caribbean region and the Bahamas forced by ONI-induced wind stress curl changes.",
keywords = "El Ni{\~n}o and La Ni{\~n}a, equatorial Pacific, Florida current, interannual variability, remote impact, sea surface height",
author = "Shenfu Dong and Volkov, {Denis L.} and Gustavo Goni and Kandaga Pujiana and Filippos Tagklis and Molly Baringer",
note = "Funding Information: We thank S.-K. Lee and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments that improved earlier versions of this paper. We would like to express our appreciation of the support by the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. We also acknowledge additional support from NOAA Climate Variability Program (GC16-210) and NOAA Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing program under the XBT project and State of the Climate: Quarterly Report on the Meridional Heat Transport in the Atlantic Ocean project. DLV acknowledges support by NOAA's Climate Variability and Predictability program (Grant No. NA20OAR4310407). This research was carried out in part under the auspices of the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, a Cooperative Institute of the University of Miami and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, cooperative agreement #NA20OAR4320472. Funding Information: We thank S.‐K. Lee and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments that improved earlier versions of this paper. We would like to express our appreciation of the support by the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. We also acknowledge additional support from NOAA Climate Variability Program (GC16‐210) and NOAA Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing program under the XBT project and State of the Climate: Quarterly Report on the Meridional Heat Transport in the Atlantic Ocean project. DLV acknowledges support by NOAA's Climate Variability and Predictability program (Grant No. NA20OAR4310407). This research was carried out in part under the auspices of the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, a Cooperative Institute of the University of Miami and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, cooperative agreement #NA20OAR4320472. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. This article has been contributed to by U.S. Government employees and their work is in the public domain in the USA.",
year = "2022",
month = feb,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1029/2021GL096944",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "49",
journal = "Geophysical Research Letters",
issn = "0094-8276",
publisher = "American Geophysical Union",
number = "4",
}