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Previous studies documented that a distinct southward shift of central Pacific low-level wind anomalies occurringduringtheENSOdecayingphaseiscausedbyaninteractionbetweenthewesternPacificannualcycleand El Nino‐Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variability. The present study finds that the meridional movement of the central Pacificwindanomalies appears only duringtraditional eastern Pacific El Nino (EP El Nino)eventsrather than in central Pacific El Nino (CP El Nino) events in which sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies are confined to the central Pacific. The zonal structure of ENSO-related SST anomalies therefore has an important effectonmeridionalasymmetryintheassociatedatmosphericresponseanditsmodulationbytheannualcycle.In contrasttoEPElNinoevents,theSSTanomaliesofCPElNinoeventsextendfartherwesttowardthewarmpool regionwithitsclimatological warmSSTs.Inthewarmpool region,relativelysmallSSTanomaliesarethusable to excite convection anomalies on both sides of the equator, even with a meridionally asymmetric SST background state. Therefore, almost meridionally symmetric precipitation and wind anomalies are observed over the central Pacific during the decaying phase of CP El Nino events. The SST anomaly pattern of La Nina events is similar to CP El Nino events with a reversed sign. Accordingly, no distinct southward displacement of the atmospheric response occurs over the central Pacific during the La Nina decaying phase. These results have important implications for ENSO climate impacts over East Asia, since the anomalous low-level anticyclone over the western North Pacific is an integral part of the annual cycle‐modulated ENSO response.

The Annual-Cycle Modulation of Meridional Asymmetry in ENSO’s Atmospheric Response and Its Dependence on ENSO Zonal Structure