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contributor authorLiu, Zhengyu
contributor authorVavrus, Steve
contributor authorHe, Feng
contributor authorWen, Na
contributor authorZhong, Yafang
date accessioned2017-06-09T17:01:14Z
date available2017-06-09T17:01:14Z
date copyright2005/11/01
date issued2005
identifier issn0894-8755
identifier otherams-78052.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4220679
description abstractThe response of tropical Pacific SST to increased atmospheric CO2 concentration is reexamined with a new focus on the latitudinal SST gradient. Available evidence, mainly from climate models, suggests that an important tropical SST fingerprint to global warming is an enhanced equatorial warming relative to the subtropics. This enhanced equatorial warming provides a fingerprint of SST response more robust than the traditionally studied El Niño?like response, which is characterized by the zonal SST gradient. Most importantly, the mechanism of the enhanced equatorial warming differs fundamentally from the El Niño?like response; the former is associated with surface latent heat flux, shortwave cloud forcing, and surface ocean mixing, while the latter is associated with equatorial ocean upwelling and wind-upwelling dynamic ocean?atmosphere feedback.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleRethinking Tropical Ocean Response to Global Warming: The Enhanced Equatorial Warming
typeJournal Paper
journal volume18
journal issue22
journal titleJournal of Climate
identifier doi10.1175/JCLI3579.1
journal fristpage4684
journal lastpage4700
treeJournal of Climate:;2005:;volume( 018 ):;issue: 022
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