ENSO Modulation and Mean State Interactions Revisited: Implications for the Early 2000s Regime Shift

Alexey V Fedorov1, Shineng Hu2, Andrew Thorne Wittenberg3, Aaron F Z Levine4, Clara Deser5 and Bowen Zhao1, (1)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)NOAA Princeton, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States