Extratropical control of tropical climate, the atmospheric bridge and oceanic tunnel
Extratropical control of tropical climate, the atmospheric bridge and oceanic tunnel
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DOI:
10.1029/2002gl016492
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发表时间:
2003-03
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Zhengyu Liu;Haijun Yang
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作者:
Zhengyu Liu;Haijun Yang
A coupled ocean‐atmosphere model study shows that the extratropical impact on tropical climate is as strong as the tropical impact on extratropical climate. A 2°C SST warming in the global extratropics increases equatorial ocean temperature by ∼1°C in the surface and subsurface. The surface temperature change is caused by the atmospheric bridge of the Hadley circulation (70%) and the oceanic tunnel of thermocline subduction (30%), while the subsurface temperature change is forced predominantly through the oceanic tunnel. Furthermore, the dominant influence on the equator comes from the southern hemisphere atmosphere and ocean.