Articles | Volume 22, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-5057-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-5057-2018
Research article
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01 Oct 2018
Research article |  | 01 Oct 2018

Combined impacts of ENSO and MJO on the 2015 growing season drought on the Canadian Prairies

Zhenhua Li, Yanping Li, Barrie Bonsal, Alan H. Manson, and Lucia Scaff

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The research started by investigating the 2015 growing season drought over the Canadian Prairies and evolved into investigating the connection between growing season rain deficit in the Prairies and MJO (20–90 days tropical oscillation in convective storms). With warm central Pacific sea surface temperature, strong MJOs in the western Pacific cause Rossby wave trains that propagate downstream and favour upper-level ridges and rain deficits over the Canadian Prairies during the growing season.