Abstract
AbstractPrior research extensively investigates the delayed influence of El Niño‐Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events on subsequent summer climates, with persistent sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTAs) in remote tropical oceans serving as crucial pathways. This study unveils a previously overlooked midlatitude pathway. During the developing winter, El Niño events induce basin‐scale cold SSTAs in the central North Pacific, which can persist into the following summer. These anomalies significantly influence early‐summer atmospheric circulation by enhancing atmospheric baroclinicity and transient eddy activities. Primarily driven by transient eddy vorticity forcing, an equivalent barotropic geopotential low anomaly emerges over the North Pacific. Enhanced by the southwesterly winds of the atmospheric low, tropical moisture is transported farther northeastward in the early summer, resulting in increased rainfall in the Pacific Northwest region. By elucidating this meridional pathway, our study advances the understanding of ENSO's delayed impacts and associated dynamical processes, in which the midlatitude oceanic feedbacks are emphasized.
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