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contributor authorLiu, Zhengyu
date accessioned2017-06-09T15:38:53Z
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date copyright1998/05/01
date issued1998
identifier issn0894-8755
identifier otherams-4962.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4189089
description abstractA theory of tropical climatology is used to study the role of ocean in the response of tropical climatology to global warming. Special emphasis is given to the response of the west?east SST contrast along the equator. The transient response of tropical sea surface temperature to a global warming is shown to have two distinctive stages: a fast surface adjustment stage of years and a slow thermocline adjustment stage of decades. Under a global warming heat flux that does not vary much in space, the initial response is always an enhanced west?east SST contrast. The final equilibrium response, however, depends on the effective latitudinal differential heating. The west?east SST contrast increases for an enhanced latitudinal differential heating, and vise versa.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleThe Role of Ocean in the Response of Tropical Climatology to Global Warming: The West–East SST Contrast
typeJournal Paper
journal volume11
journal issue5
journal titleJournal of Climate
identifier doi10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<0864:TROOIT>2.0.CO;2
journal fristpage864
journal lastpage875
treeJournal of Climate:;1998:;volume( 011 ):;issue: 005
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