| DOI: | 10.1007/s00382-014-2105-9
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| Scopus记录号: | 2-s2.0-84896411123
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| 论文题名: | Precipitation response to La Niña and global warming in the Indo-Pacific |
| 作者: | Chung C.T.Y.; Power S.B.
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| 刊名: | Climate Dynamics
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| ISSN: | 9307575
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| 出版年: | 2014
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| 卷: | 43, 期:12 | | 起始页码: | 3293
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| 结束页码: | 3307
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文关键词: | Climate change
; Climate variability
; El Niño Southern Oscillation
; Global warming
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| 英文摘要: | Recent studies have highlighted the nonlinear rainfall response to El Niño sea surface temperature (SST) events in the Indo-Pacific region and how this response might change over coming decades. Here we investigate the response to La Niña SST anomalies with and without global warming by performing idealised SST-forced experiments with an atmospheric general circulation model. The La Niña SST anomaly is multiplied by a factor 1≤α≤4 and added to climatological SSTs. Similar experiments using El Niño SST anomalies were previously performed, in which large nonlinearities in the precipitation response were evident. We find that: (i) Under current climatic conditions, as α increases, the precipitation responds in three ways: the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) dries and moves poleward, the maximum precipitation along the equator moves west, and the South Pacific convergence zone (SPCZ) narrows, intensifies, and elongates. For weak (α=1) La Niña events, the precipitation anomalies approximately mirror those from the El Niño events along the ITCZ and SPCZ, though there are some marked differences in the central-eastern Pacific. For stronger La Niña events (α>1), precipitation responds nonlinearly to SST anomalies, though the nonlinearities are smaller and differ spatially from the nonlinearities in the El Niño runs. (ii) The addition of a global warming SST pattern increases rainfall in the western Pacific and SPCZ, enhances the narrowing of the SPCZ, and increases the nonlinear response in the western Pacific. However, large La Niña events reduce the impact of global warming along the central-eastern equatorial Pacific as the global warming and La Niña SST anomalies have opposite signs in that region. (iii) The response to La Niña SST anomalies is driven primarily by changes in the atmospheric circulation, whereas the response to the global warming SST pattern is mainly driven by increases in atmospheric moisture. (iv) Large changes in La Niña-driven rainfall anomalies can occur in response to global warming, even if the La Nina SST anomalies relative to the warmer background state are completely unchanged. © 2014, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. |
| 资助项目: | CSIRO, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/54385
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| Appears in Collections: | 过去全球变化的重建
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作者单位: | Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Bureau of Meteorology, GPO Box 1289, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Chung C.T.Y.,Power S.B.. Precipitation response to La Niña and global warming in the Indo-Pacific[J]. Climate Dynamics,2014-01-01,43(12)
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