Abstract: El Niño warming corresponds to an eastward extension of the western Pacific warm pool; one thus naturally wonders whether an increase in the warm pool SST will result in stronger El Niños. This question, though elementary, ...

Abstract: The heat balance of the coupled tropical ocean?atmosphere system during the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) period (1985?89) is analyzed in an attempt to better understand the heat sources and sinks of the 1986?87 ...

Abstract: he El Niño?La Niña asymmetry is evaluated in 14 coupled models from phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5). The results show that an underestimate of ENSO asymmetry, a common problem noted in CMIP3 ...

Abstract: Using the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate Model, version 3, radiation transfer model and a realistic tropospheric environment including the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project cloud ...

Abstract: Utilizing a conceptual model for tropical convection and observational data for water vapor, the maintenance of the vertical distribution of the tropical tropospheric water vapor is discussed. While deep convection induces ...

Abstract: By comparing the response of clouds and water vapor to ENSO forcing in nature with that in Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP) simulations by some leading climate models, an earlier evaluation of tropical cloud ...

Abstract: The dependence of the temperature and wind distribution of the zonal mean flow in the extratropical troposphere on the gradient of potential vorticity along isentropes is examined. The extratropics here refer to the region ...

Abstract: Based on the observed interannual variations of water vapor and temperature over the past 26 years the authors have examined the relationship between the variations of water vapor and temperature in the tropical troposphere. ...

Abstract: revious evaluations of model simulations of the cloud and water vapor feedbacks in response to El Niño warming have singled out two common biases in models from phase 3 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3): ...

Abstract: he potential role that rectification of ENSO plays as a viable mechanism to generate climate anomalies on the decadal and longer time scales demands a thorough study of this process. In this paper, rectification of ENSO ...