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RISThe Ocean’s Role in Continental Climate Variability and Change
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A characteristic feature of global warming is the land?sea contrast, with stronger warming over land than over oceans. Recent studies find that this land?sea contrast also exists in equilibrium global change scenarios, and ...
Comments on “The Relationship between Land–Ocean Surface Temperature Contrast and Radiative Forcing”
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: n a recent article, Dommenget discussed the role of sea surface temperature variability for continental climate variability and change. Lambert et al. comment on Dommenget?s article in their article several times, arguing ...
Analysis of the Model Climate Sensitivity Spread Forced by Mean Sea Surface Temperature Biases
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ncertainties in the numerical realization of the physical climate system in coarse-resolution climate models in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) cause large spread in the global mean and regional ...
Predictions of Indian Ocean SST Indices with a Simple Statistical Model: A Null Hypothesis
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Several recent general circulation model studies discuss the predictability of the Indian Ocean dipole (IOD) mode, suggesting that it is predictable because of coupled ocean?atmosphere interactions in the Indian Ocean. ...
The Tropospheric Land–Sea Warming Contrast as the Driver of Tropical Sea Level Pressure Changes
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: his article addresses the causes of the large-scale tropical sea level pressure (SLP) changes during climate change. The analysis presented here is based on model simulations, observed trends, and the seasonal cycle. In ...
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Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Interannual to Decadal Variability in the Tropical Atlantic
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Analyses of annual mean sea surface temperatures (SST) from observations for the period 1903?94 and four different general circulation models (GCMs) were conducted. The two dominant EOFs of all datasets are characterized ...
Assessing ENSO Simulations and Predictions Using Adjoint Ocean State Estimation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Simulations and seasonal forecasts of tropical Pacific SST and subsurface fields that are based on the global Consortium for Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) ocean-state estimation procedure are ...
A Cautionary Note on the Interpretation of EOFs
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analyses (rotated or not) are widely used in climate research. In recent years there have been several studies in which EOF analyses were used to highlight potential physical mechanisms ...
Tropical Atmosphere–Ocean Interactions in a Conceptual Framework
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Statistical analysis of observations (including atmospheric reanalysis and forced ocean model simulations) is used to address two questions: First, does an analogous mechanism to that of El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ...